On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 05:32:21PM -0400, Jason Hunt wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 03:14:19PM -0400, Jason Hunt wrote:
> >
> > > Why not make pkg_add(1) understand both .tgz and .tbz?
> >
> > I think it still does, just not for pkg_add -r. Your p
I am an enthusiastic FreeBSD newbie, just smart enough to search for a
mailing list like this one. Would it be possible to make an exception to
the new .tbz format package policy for pkg_add itself (i.e. provide it
in .tgz format)? I suggest this in the hope that a painless and simple
upgrade coul
> David O'Brien merged the relevant changes yesterday. If you think
Looks like I CVSUP'd before the patch made it to the mirror I was using. I've
just CVSUPed again and got the changes.
Thanks!
It's a huuuge pity this didn't happen before the change to the Ports
makefiles, tho...
To
At the request of the release engineers the default package
compression scheme has been changed from gzipped tarball to bzip2ed
tarball. The package tools have been updated to deal with the new
format (older package tools only had partial support for .tbz
packages).
Additionally, the ports colle
