Why .tgz packages for 4.x

[Mark Ovens]

Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 12:48:30PM +0200, Kyryll A Mirnenko wrote:
> 
>> Don't you know why 4.x packages're distributed tar gzipped for 4.x?
>> pkg_(?:add|update) understands both .tgz/.tbz but the last saves
>> ~20% of my time & money while downloading from mirror
> 
> 1) Please wrap your lines at 70 characters so your emails may be easily read.
> 
> 2) This was attempted in the past, but it caused a lot of problems for
> users during the transition.  5.x has .tbz packages.
> 

Hmmm, I tried using pkg_add with an ftp address to a .tgz package (a 
link from the ports search page IIRC) but got an error something like 
"pkg_add can only handle files with a .tbz extension. D/l the .tgz and 
ran pkg_add on the local copy and it worked fine. The package was cvsup 
I think.

> Kris