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Date:      Mon, 01 May 1995 10:35:27 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, bugs@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: pkg_manage has a problem? 
Message-ID:  <199505010835.KAA14076@grumble.grondar.za>

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> > It seems that pkg_info -a simply does not work.
> 
> You're right, it doesn't.  Thanks for tracking this down.
> I'll go look into this shortly.

More info. I turned on a DEBUG macro and put in some code of my own
into pkg_install/lib/file.c. The problem may be in the vicinity of line 385:

Script started on Mon May  1 10:26:32 1995
bash# ./pkg_info -a
Warning: PKG_PATH environment variable not set.
LINE 385: tar }.xpf  +*
Executing tar }.xpf  +*
tar: unknown option }
tar: Unknown option.  Use 'tar --help' for a complete list of options.
Tar extract of  failed!
Error during unpacking, no info for 'less-290' available.
Executing rm -rf /var/tmp/instmp.013955
bash# exit

M
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Mark Murray
46 Harvey Rd, Claremont, Cape Town 7700, South Africa
+27 21 61-3768 GMT+0200



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