From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 26 14:19: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD57037B401 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:18:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43DE543E65 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:18:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from owt.com (owt-207-41-94-232.owt.com [207.41.94.232]) by rutger.owt.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA13724; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:18:52 -0700 Message-ID: <3D9379B9.2010403@owt.com> Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:18:49 -0700 From: Kent Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, es-mx MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?S=F8ren_Neigaard?= Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkg_add failure on 4.6.2 References: <1221086500.20020926223157@e-box.dk> <3D9371B6.2000106@owt.com> <232709250.20020926225900@e-box.dk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Søren Neigaard wrote: > Thursday, September 26, 2002, 10:44:38 PM, Kent wrote: > > KS> Søren Neigaard wrote: > >>>I just installed 4.6.2, and I wanted to install cvsup. So I brought >>>the cvsup-16-1f.tbz from ftp.freebsd.org, and did a >>>'pkg_add cvsup-16-1f.tbz', but whenever I run pkg_add, it core dumps. >>> >>>How can I redirect the error message from pkg_add to a file, and how >>>do I attache files with 'mail', so I can send you some more info on >>>this? >> > > KS> I don't think you can get what you want to install. Your system > KS> doesn't recognize the new format and that is why pkg_add is dying. > KS> They have reverted to the old format but that will take a while. I > KS> would grab 1e from http://people.freebsd.org/~jdp/s1g/ and then make > KS> and add the current port. Version 1f doesn't take long to build. > > KS> Kent > > I did not get that one? Does pkg_add not reconize the new format, or? > Even if I try to run pkg_add without any parameters, it still dies, is > it pkg_add that is broken? > > What do you mean with 1e and 1f? I'm not into this cvsup thing, I just > need it to update my ports tree. Should I get the source and build it, > and if so, where should I place the source prior to build? Will this > fix my problem, or is it an entire new problem? > No, you do not have to build it. You can download version ...1f.tgz from one of the mirrors and add it. The pkg_add on your system does not recognize the new compression scheme. Find a ...1f.tgz that you can download and pkg_add it. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message