Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 20:51:41 -0500 From: "Clarence Brown" <clabrown@granitepost.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: how to use sysinstall or pkg_add Message-ID: <004001c151f7$4689ea20$8f6896d1@granitepost.com>
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OK, I'm stuck and frustrated on what should be a simple step. As recommended in the handbook, I'm trying to add the cvsupit package so I can update to the latest stable release. I'm starting from the 4.3 CD set, assuming that much of the source might be the same reducing the amount of code transferred with CVS Things seemed to fall apart with the first step of simply adding the cvsupit package... I've tried to add the cvsupit-3.0 package using the /stand/sysinstall utility. I mark the package and it automatically marks cvsup-bin-16.1 as a dependency, which makes sense. Next I get a screen showing 2 fields "cvsupit-3.0" and "/usr/ports/net/cvsupit". I tell it OK to install, and it seems to do cvsup-bin-16.1 OK, then stops with the messages "Adding packages/All/cvsupit-3.0.tgz from acd0c" "package cvsupit-3.0 read successfully - waiting for pkg_add(1)" It HANGS at this point. I can abort the process with ^C, but I've let it sit overnight to see if waiting would help, but it doesn't. I also can't seem to find this error message listed with any steps to correct it. Neither the documentation for pkg_add or sysinstall address this problem. I'm just trying to add a package off of the installation CD as recommended by the Handbook, this is supposed to be easy, RIGHT?? I searched the mail archive and found one thread with the suggestion to try running pkg_add manually, so I turned to the man page and handbook to try to figure out how to run pkg_add. As usual, I find that the documentation seems to bare little resemblance to the actual process. It implies that I should more or less type in the pkg_add command and then the precompiled package should be installed without fuss. I tried changing to the directory on the CD and running pkg_add from there: cd /dist/packages/All/ pkg_add cvsupit-3.0.tgz This presents a "pretty" text dialog titled: "Branch Selection Menu" with a paragraph of text about selecting which tree to update my source files from, including "." the 5.0 head, RELENG_4, RELENG_3, RELENG_2_2, cvs and none. I'm running a 4.3 system just installed from the CD , so I probably don't want to run code from ANY of those selections, because that would be mixing code from 4.4 with my 4.3 kernel, right? Besides that, why is it asking me about updating my source tree when I'm adding a package, which the documentation tells me is precompiled and doesn't involve source files. I've got some little questions. 1. How am I supposed to add the cvsupit package from the 4.3 install CD using /stand/sysinstall? 2. If I can't use sysinstall and must manually run pkg_add, where should I execute the pkg_add command from? Do I change to the directory that contains the *.tgz package file? 3. Why does the pkg_add command ask me questions about which branch to update my source tree from? I'm NOT trying to update my source tree at all yet. I thought I understood that adding a package involved installing a precompiled binary, not updating a source tree. The only reason I could see to update the source tree would be in the ports process where the port downloads source and compiles it. 4. Since I just installed 4.3 from the CD, why is it asking me about source for 5.0, 4.4, 3.? etc. Isn't it dangerous to install utilities from the latest release of 4.4 onto a 4.3 system? OK, so how do I make this work? Thanks, Cla. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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