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Date:      Sun, 30 Apr 1995 18:21:07 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami | =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?=)
Cc:        mark@grondar.za, bugs@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: pkg_manage has a problem? 
Message-ID:  <199504301621.SAA08524@grumble.grondar.za>

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> If you've picked up the bsd.port.mk and pkg_install from -current,
> "make install" in a port should have registered the package (just like 
> you did "pkg_add") for you.

Then I think we are dealing with a bug. As pkg_manage starts, it tries to
read the package info. It then gives a dialog box that says "An error
occurred, view output?". I select yes, and another box comes up entitled
"Error output from pkg_add". This contains (and I type by hand):
Warning:PKG_PATH environment variable not set.
tar: unknown option }
tar: unknown option. use tar --help blah blah blah
Tar extract of  failed!  <----This is an exact copy
Error during unpacking, no info for 'less-290' available.

I have only one package registered, 'less', how did you guess? ;-)
and its directory structure looks like:

Script started on Sun Apr 30 18:18:09 1995
bash$ find /var/db/pkg -print
/var/db/pkg
/var/db/pkg/less-290
/var/db/pkg/less-290/+CONTENTS
/var/db/pkg/less-290/+DESC
/var/db/pkg/less-290/+COMMENT
bash$ exit

Any ideas?

Mark

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