Ask about software package system issue.

[Supote Leelasupphakorn]

To... All

   How I know which software package is for
freebsd-5 or freebsd-4 ?

TIA,
Pote


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Re: Ask about software package system issue.

[Matthew Seaman]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 01:22:36PM +, Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote:
 To... All
 
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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