From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 4 13:51: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 785CF37B400 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 13:51:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-64-165-226-88.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [64.165.226.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5427B43E42 for ; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 13:50:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9B51366C4E; Wed, 4 Sep 2002 13:50:56 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2002 13:50:56 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Janine C. Buorditez" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bad package system, BAAD. And; tbz2 -- WTF(ine) is this? Message-ID: <20020904205056.GB19904@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20020904212931.5728b785.johann@broadpark.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="l76fUT7nc3MelDdI" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020904212931.5728b785.johann@broadpark.no> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --l76fUT7nc3MelDdI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 09:29:31PM +0200, Janine C. Buorditez wrote: > Hello. >=20 > Why make packages in tbz2 when pkg_add doesn't understand it, and why not= make > the -r feature take packages from ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/packa= ges/*/* > instead of ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/Lates= t/? The ports system only supports freebsd-stable, which understands .tbz packages. I sent mail about this to the relevant lists when the change occurred. Kris --l76fUT7nc3MelDdI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE9dnIvWry0BWjoQKURAvJvAKDON30OSZ2jR2jgVzFhP494j311AwCgjawz YOyZVkq5wzpH/9mjNzRNU6o= =oTjt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --l76fUT7nc3MelDdI-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message