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Date:      Wed, 11 Sep 2002 17:02:17 -0400
From:      Jim Durham <jimd@nepinc.com>
To:        Jerry Lundy <pm-jwlundy@aafes.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, re@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: tbz vs. tgz
Message-ID:  <200209111702.17620.jimd@nepinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <3D7CF27A.75728194@aafes.com>
References:  <3D7CF27A.75728194@aafes.com>

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On Monday 09 September 2002 03:11 pm, Jerry Lundy wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> The change of package format from .tgz to .tbz has created a furor
> in my office.  Our pkg_add quit working, apparently due to the
> cutover. (I would have assumed that a migration would be more
> appropriate.)
>
> Question: How do we make pkg_add work again?
>
> Better idea: Can freebsd.org make pkg_add work again?

I found that not all the ftp sites have converted the packages
to .tbz.    ftp.de.freebsd.org has .tgz packages (at least in
the 4.6.2-RELEASE/packages .

-Jim

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