Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 15:22:43 -0500 From: Loh John Wu <ljwu@sandvine.com> To: 'Kris Kennaway' <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: "'freebsd-ports@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: how to get freeBSD 5.1 pkg_add to install .tgz files Message-ID: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C853370283A46E@mail.sandvine.com>
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Well I had a 4.x system and I want to move to a 5.1 system. I had some ports and packages that were on my 4.x system that I want on the 5.1 one. I thought ports were never versioned? Is there a split between the 4.x ports and the 5.1 ports? I tried to look for some explanation about the differences between a 5.1 port and a 4.x port but couldn't find any.... Does 5.1 not support tgz packages? Like I have a verison of bash on my 4.x system that I wanted to put on 5.1 so I just did a pkg_ad on the new system but fails out. I have also created some custom packages (tarballs with the pkg extras) for my 4.x system which were gzipped. Do I need to rebuild to packages to use bzip2 for them to be usable on a 5.1 system? What is the recommended method of putting new packages/ports on a 5.1 system? Thanks, John -----Original Message----- From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:kris@obsecurity.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 2:52 PM To: Loh John Wu Cc: 'freebsd-ports@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: how to get freeBSD 5.1 pkg_add to install .tgz files On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 11:26:43AM -0500, Loh John Wu wrote: > Hello, > > This is my first time using FreeBSD 5.1 and I noticed that pkg_add has > changed in that it requires a bzip2 file? Does it not support gzip files > anymore? A better question is why are you trying to add 4.x packages on your 5.x box? Kris
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