From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Nov 29 10:10:29 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78FFD115ADF8 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2018 10:10:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mout.kundenserver.de (mout.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.134]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "mout.kundenserver.de", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass DE-2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6973381431 for ; Thu, 29 Nov 2018 10:10:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r56.edvax.de ([92.195.104.227]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (mreue010 [212.227.15.167]) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 1MT9zD-1fxoX61iaF-00Udt6; Thu, 29 Nov 2018 11:10:19 +0100 Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 11:10:19 +0100 From: Polytropon To: gahn Cc: gahn via freebsd-questions Subject: Re: install binary packages without pkg Message-Id: <20181129111019.0d95ebe1.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <2108350937.8699050.1543459720257@mail.yahoo.com> References: <2108350937.8699050.1543459720257.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <2108350937.8699050.1543459720257@mail.yahoo.com> Reply-To: Polytropon Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.1.1 (GTK+ 2.24.5; i386-portbld-freebsd8.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:vd0pWy52Dir0myrWYm6NoansooG2AyctLV6xt04gmB+/8hTgbCJ qBVJvYrmqH6zyT/pJZP/ShfB3/tlOq3U0u3cW359YY73wvertIkE7UcBfDIElXMzOHABFfr OiAk5VNwdOjS+HDnxrp58/G02QqmeEDD1PrXB/sBoqpI/wR30DBCKNMri3wJimRlmm/X+DD 0HNOdzWOmvcTDkPDBccxw== X-Spam-Flag: NO X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V03:K0:oQOrBssdsGk=:IOcc+9leQBCQZVGgzA7iyO aqAYMr8b/5Zz/u63Yy+5r47r/HBViguls6wX7x52cRoC1WRrWz0msOpwKTYuTRXtCtpEa7SBF ZHgaeR1/jFUSjcRrTMkqyMnrVGAt/+2zYnw94KdYW0dUQ07rVjBeJqHLOVEmvsemXTAhO8xAe aJijJjTnEQWp71Q7rQzKKRASDmxNR4sy5Yf6J6PiwqAJVttM1wZq803CN93790Utn5vSYyztp xAPyaaqIswSOVmrmYHsA1Eh+wcKlMCekb/IUyjhGb1GotDxKIVLGadg1D7zODgANvvvAifWS3 mADDW//VVPZJwlSJysgiRdvTcmbeFWPFikVCDcS/tIPBbfrl7qtzFOaqxflzUPtaGG+LikAFh duzwJ97K1jZj62BVO2QWc0SmBbdRk8Va/G+8dWc2Qxk9kj9aNUy2fsJCXXJp++oeP7R79hGaY 3uU1KXZ0BWMyXD782jsvoBncz1TyoOEA6c8hJ/g7EYNl6FgqahpIYFnOWDUW7dvW6LLRKSKu6 PfaOJET6UTt9IPTZbYuGrnzG91JjSe1TNMc1Tjcpfyt+XzUDEwGf9/uQ7pzYjIHeffjRl+vxq JSf2JzL5sGtF+LJ7yMy97sQns63AoqmplXBaOBgqROFoAmX/huq+PHwpLLagkawRkHAuyja8A oYBLgUQXdNNJTPx1zvHriCwlaoystgNbKDAzw9aVRL+Txq0E//Jeq7g4xLSjcWZdYlrJ020vm YRXb+x5wDoiQi6TxbWUvxCqV8vH1EikSmFU/26Bl3pNdTC2AC2HpbR4/hkw= X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 6973381431 X-Spamd-Result: default: False [0.73 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; HAS_REPLYTO(0.00)[freebsd@edvax.de]; MV_CASE(0.50)[]; HAS_ORG_HEADER(0.00)[]; TO_DN_ALL(0.00)[]; MX_GOOD(-0.01)[mx00.schlund.de,mx01.schlund.de]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; FREEMAIL_TO(0.00)[yahoo.com]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:8560, ipnet:212.227.0.0/16, country:DE]; IP_SCORE(-0.06)[ipnet: 212.227.0.0/16(-0.39), asn: 8560(0.11), country: DE(-0.02)]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[227.104.195.92.zen.spamhaus.org : 127.0.0.10]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.86)[-0.863,0]; REPLYTO_EQ_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.07)[0.072,0]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.81)[-0.810,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[edvax.de]; AUTH_NA(1.00)[]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE(0.00)[134.126.227.212.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.0]; MID_CONTAINS_FROM(1.00)[]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-Rspamd-Server: mx1.freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 10:10:29 -0000 On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 02:48:40 +0000 (UTC), gahn via freebsd-questions wrote: > i have a freebsd 7.1 station. how could i install binary packages > from freebsd sites without pkg? You probably can't. FreeBSD 7 is long time EOL. It doesn't even have pkg. If I remember correctly, the new pkg system appeared along FreeBSD 8, and became standard around FreeBSD 9. Packages for FreeBSD 7 are no longer being generated for current software. The older pkg_ format and the new pkg format for precompiled packages are not compatible. On a FreeBSD 7 system, you'd have to use the program pkg_install to install packages. As long as they are in the old format, this will still work. It might be possible that you examine the package content, and then manually extract them, so its content gets written to the correct location. This however does _not_ deal with keeping the system's records about installed packages (the package database) consistent with the actually installed software! Again, note that those are in different formats. Is there a reason you cannot upgrade the system to a currently supported version of FreeBSD, and use pkg as intended? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...