Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 16:23:46 -0400 From: Lonnie Cumberland <lonnie@outstep.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tbz file from pkg Message-ID: <CAPmsJLAdK-1aS8r6=oB253ooZyaL2Q6GMNG-sAJBdR_KEXoGRg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20200725203801.9a4965b8.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <CAPmsJLC0yTtek8AKo6r_XL8yt_9dCNvGs1jyVyOTu6g9N7YziA@mail.gmail.com> <20200725203801.9a4965b8.freebsd@edvax.de>
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Thanks All, Since the pkg command returns txz (tar+xz) compressed files during a fetch, I am going to try to come up with a shell script that will loop through all of the txz files in a folder and convert each one to a tbz (tar+bzip2) compressed file. I think that might be helpful to others as well. Cheers On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 2:38 PM Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > 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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