If memory serves me right, Christopher Vance wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 08:08:16AM +0100, Nick Barnes wrote:
> : So the system which I upgraded to -STABLE just last week, for the sole
> : purpose of getting a working "pkg_add -r" (i.e. one which understood
> : bzip), will now no longer have a working "pkg_add -r"?

I sense some (understandable) frustration here.  You're right in that
it's not likely to work, once a gzip package set is uploaded for
4-STABLE.  I wish you didn't have to go through that effort for nothing,
but we judged that to be the best alternative available to us.

> If the current pkg_add won't handle both, it's broken worse than ever.

Which is why we're going back to gzip.

Bruce.


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