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Subject: Re: Strangeness with FreeBSD 4.2 and CVSUP install
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Ralph wrote:

>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.
>  
>

Tried pkg_add?  Probably won't work as it's
unlikely to find packages dated from that time,
but might be worth a shot, as it would only
take a second to try.

You might try looking around for a cvsup
version that's contemporary to the boxen
and going from there.  But a quick Google
doesn't show it to me.  OTOH, it's likely to
need to be "stepping stoned" quite a bit anyway,
so what not backup the data and do a
clean install of 4.10 or 5.3?

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.