Date: Sun, 5 Mar 1995 09:12:27 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Subject: Re: pkg_add/delete bug? Message-ID: <199503050812.JAA07677@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.87.9503051511.A20109-0100000@gate> from "Brian Tao" at Mar 5, 95 03:29:11 pm
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As Brian Tao wrote: > > I grabbed top-3.3beta4.tgz and decided to try pkg_add on it (I > usually compile stuff from scratch, so pkg_add is new for me). I forgot > I had 'top' running in another window, so this is what I get: > > # pkg_add top-3.3beta4.tgz > tar: Could not create file bin/top : Text file busy > [go to the other window to quit 'top'] Before Terry jumps in and proposes us again to store a copy of any executable in swap :^), well, perhaps pkg_add should simply use install(1) to install the binary? This is supposed to take care of ETXTBSY (by renaming/unlinking the old binary). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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