Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:47:57 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firefox install problem Message-ID: <4C61BAFD.5050004@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <i3s1pk$24l$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <4C60C4D9.A6BEE6E@blakemfg.com> <4C60D596.8070405@too1337.com> <4C617BA6.659B26B4@blakemfg.com> <i3s1pk$24l$1@dough.gmane.org>
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On 10/08/2010 18:21:25, Michael Powell wrote:
> A tar.gz is a source code tarball meant to be compiled via the ports system.
> pkg_add installs precompiled and packaged binary packages. Package files
> will have a .tbz extension. pkg_add does not operate on source code
> tarballs.
All pkgs have a .tbz suffix -- true, at least since about 6.0-RELEASE.
Not everything with a .tbz suffix is a FreeBSD pkg though. .tbz is
short for .tar.bz2, and there are plenty of source tarballs around
distributed with a .tbz extension.
.tgz is similar shorthand for .tar.gz. If you go and look, you can find
a bunch of other compression programs applied to tar archives and used
for distributing stuff.
The best way to tell if what you're looking at is a FreeBSD package is
to run pkg_info against it:
pkg_info -a foo-1.0.0.tbz
Of course, having downloaded the pkg from the packages directory tree on
one of the FreeBSD FTP servers is a pretty big hint as well. As is
finding it in /usr/ports/packages/All.
Cheers,
Matthew
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