Re: Install with new tar.xz extension

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 08:49:03AM -0600, Robert Nestor wrote:
> Tried downloading and installing 8.99.25 this morning and noticed
> that it fails because the installation utility (sysinst) doesn?t
> support the new tar.xz extension.  PR pkg/53697 seems to address this
> in the sysutil/sysupgrade utility.  Is another PR needed to get this
> addressed in the sysinst utility?

Please provide more details.

Sysinst does support .tar.xz files on the architectures where we ship in
that format.

So which architecture are you trying to install, how are you installing and
what errors do you see?

Martin