Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 20:38:01 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie@outstep.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tbz file from pkg Message-ID: <20200725203801.9a4965b8.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <CAPmsJLC0yTtek8AKo6r_XL8yt_9dCNvGs1jyVyOTu6g9N7YziA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAPmsJLC0yTtek8AKo6r_XL8yt_9dCNvGs1jyVyOTu6g9N7YziA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 13:25:19 -0400, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > In working with the "pkg fetch .." command, I notice that the coles come > back with the ".txz" extension. > > In my reading on FreeBSD, it seems that the common extension is a ".tbz" Those extensions mean different things. > So then, I am wondering how to either have "pkg fetch" return ".tbz" files > or perhaps there is a way to convert the ".txz" files. > > Any insight on this? The extensions usually identify what 't' that is is a tar archive, and "xz" indicates the kind of compression. There are many: ----- filename extensions ----- ------- compression -------- short long alternate meaning tar option ------------------------------------------------------------ .tar tar .tgz .tar.gz tar + GNU zip -z .tbz .tar.bz .tar.bz2 tar + bzip -j .txz .tar.xz tar + xz -J BSD tar supports them all, it can conveniently combine the uncompression and extraction operations. Also see "man 1 xz" and "man 1 bzip2" for details, as well as "man 1 tar", of course. :-) In order to convert a .txz to a .tbz archive, you can use the tools mentioned above to uncompress and recompress the content. Note that there are various options that can affect the compression level. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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