Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 10:33:53 -0400 From: tom worster <fsb@thefsb.org> To: Untitled <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: upgrading pkgtools Message-ID: <B99B9211.DB13%fsb@thefsb.org> In-Reply-To: <44ptvtop8b.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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on 9/4/02 9:31 AM, "Lowell Gilbert" <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.no-ip.com> wrote: > tom worster <fsb@thefsb.org> writes: > >> i was setting up a machine with a new install from the 4.6.2 iso but when i >> got to installing packages i noticed that pkg_add -r is now incompatible >> with the new .gbz package format on the ftp site. >> >> how-to upgrade pkgtools? > > Several possible methods: > 1) Use the package from 4.6. > 2) Use the port instead of a package. > 3) Download the new package, uncompress it with bzip2, and > re-compress it with gzip. thanks. however, i would think of these more as workarounds (from which 1 and 2 i have been using) than as upgrades to pkgtools. the convenience of using pkg_add -r seems like it might be worth doing the upgrade. i read on the ports list that updated pkgtools have been uploaded somewhere (stable, current?). so what i'm really looking for is a brief description of what i need to do to make these new pkgtools work on a 4.6.2 system. i'm guessing that installing a source tree from the cd (i don't usually need one), updating it with cvsup (i never bothered to set it up before), and make world (never done that before), might do it. but i'm hoping there is a simpler alternative. ? tia c u fsb To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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