Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:44:37 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Supote Leelasupphakorn <pjn0211@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ask about software package system issue. Message-ID: <20040316134437.GD55349@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040316132236.61423.qmail@web40608.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040316132236.61423.qmail@web40608.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:22:36PM +0000, Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote:
> To... All
>=20
> How I know which software package is for
> freebsd-5 or freebsd-4 ?
Packages for FreeBSD-4 have a '.tgz' extension. FreeBSD-5 uses
'.tbz'. However, that may change in the future permitting both
compression scheemes to be used with one or both of those system
versions, so don't necessarily rely on the distinction.
Generally the way you tell which OS version a package is for is by the
directory heirarchy on the FTP servers. eg:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable
will get packages suitable for FreeBSD 4.x. See the blurb that gets
preinted out when you go to:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/
Cheers,
Matthew
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