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Subject: Strangeness with FreeBSD 4.2 and CVSUP install
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Hey, I have an ancicent box I've inherited, output of
uname -a is:
  bash-2.04# uname -a
FreeBSD dropbox.xxxx.xxxx 4.2-RELEASE FreeBSD
4.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Nov 20 13:02:55 GMT 2000    
jkh@bento.FreeBSD.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC 
i386

 Obviously, she's got a few miles on her, and cvsup
wasn't installed.  I downloaded the tarball from the
FreeBSD ftp server, untar'd it, and tried to do a make
install, then got this ugliness:

<error>
  gzip -cn pkg_version.1 > pkg_version.1.gz
===>  Installing for pkg_install-20040802
===>   Generating temporary packing list
ln: illegal option -- h
usage: ln [-fisv] file1 file2
       ln [-fisv] file ... directory
       link file1 file2
*** Error code 1
 
Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/pkg_install.
*** Error code 1
 
Stop in /usr/ports/textproc/sed_inplace.
*** Error code 1
 
Stop in /usr/ports/lang/ezm3.
*** Error code 1
 
Stop in /usr/ports/net/cvsup.

</error>

Can someone help?

Thanks in advance.


		
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