From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Nov 1 00:51:55 1995 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id AAA03518 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 00:51:55 -0800 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.222.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA03507 for ; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 00:51:51 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id AAA18370; Wed, 1 Nov 1995 00:51:38 -0800 To: Michael Smith cc: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: pkg_add in -stable broken; want to help! In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 01 Nov 1995 17:15:48 +1030." <199511010645.RAA05982@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Date: Wed, 01 Nov 1995 00:51:37 -0800 Message-ID: <18367.815215897@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-stable@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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! [[