Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 00:51:37 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pkg_add in -stable broken; want to help! Message-ID: <18367.815215897@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 01 Nov 1995 17:15:48 %2B1030." <199511010645.RAA05982@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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STILL? I thought we fixed this?! Foo. It seems like the two pieces of software I hate most on this earth, pkg_install and sysinstall, just refuse to die and stop haunting me! :-) I'm currently chasing something else (in sysinstall of course), so if anyone wishes to dive on this one for now, feel free! Jordan > Ok, I just upgraded (make reinstall) a 2.0.5 installation to -stable > and I'm seeing the pkg_add problem : > > /mnt is the 2.0.5 CD, NFS mounted from another system. > > # pkg_add -v mm-2.7.tgz > Requested space 573595 bytes, free space : 32101376 bytes in /var/instmp.0002 16 > tar: can't open archive ./mm-2.7.tgz : No such file or directory > tar: child returned status 3 > tar: +CONTENTS not found in archive > Unable to open table of contents file `+CONTENTS' - not a package? > 1 package addition(s) failed. > > If I give an explicit path to pkg_add, it works. It looks like a stray > chdir() to me. > > -- > ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ > ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ > ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ > ]] My car has "demand start" -Terry Lambert UNIX: live FreeBSD or die! [[
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