From owner-freebsd-ports Mon May 1 01:39:10 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA17652 for ports-outgoing; Mon, 1 May 1995 01:39:10 -0700 Received: from grunt.grondar.za (grunt.grondar.za [196.7.18.129]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA17531 ; Mon, 1 May 1995 01:35:46 -0700 Received: from grumble.grondar.za (grumble.grondar.za [196.7.18.130]) by grunt.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id KAA04172; Mon, 1 May 1995 10:35:30 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumble.grondar.za (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id KAA14076; Mon, 1 May 1995 10:35:27 +0200 Message-Id: <199505010835.KAA14076@grumble.grondar.za> X-Authentication-Warning: grumble.grondar.za: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Mark Murray , asami@cs.berkeley.edu, bugs@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pkg_manage has a problem? Date: Mon, 01 May 1995 10:35:27 +0200 From: Mark Murray Sender: ports-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > It seems that pkg_info -a simply does not work. > > You're right, it doesn't. Thanks for tracking this down. > I'll go look into this shortly. More info. I turned on a DEBUG macro and put in some code of my own into pkg_install/lib/file.c. The problem may be in the vicinity of line 385: Script started on Mon May 1 10:26:32 1995 bash# ./pkg_info -a Warning: PKG_PATH environment variable not set. LINE 385: tar }.xpf +* Executing tar }.xpf +* tar: unknown option } tar: Unknown option. Use 'tar --help' for a complete list of options. Tar extract of failed! Error during unpacking, no info for 'less-290' available. Executing rm -rf /var/tmp/instmp.013955 bash# exit M -- Mark Murray 46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa +27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200