I was messing around with the portarchivetype option today and tried to set it to tbz2 according to ports.conf, but the resulting files, while ending in .tbz2, were not: /opt/local/var/db/dports/packages/darwin/i386/coreutils-6.7_1+with_default_names.i386.tbz2: POSIX tar archive So the code looks a little fragile in that it does regex matching on the names to determine which archiver and compressor to use. It also doesn't cover misspelled settings So a couple of things: 1) Should we decide on a standard tbz or tbz2? We should have the documentation match the code. 2) Have to code check for all valid types instead of trying regexps on them? Thanks, Blair -- Blair Zajac, Ph.D. CTO, OrcaWare Technologies <blair@orcaware.com> Subversion training, consulting and support http://www.orcaware.com/svn/