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To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, bugs@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: pkg_manage has a problem? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 30 Apr 1995 18:21:07 +0200."
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Date: Sun, 30 Apr 1995 09:43:44 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> 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.

Hmmmm...  Can you add a little diagnostic output to pkg_manage and tell
me which args its invoking pkg_add with?  I may have broken something
with my recent changes and would like a chance to debug it!

Also, please put the failing package information up for ftp someplace
so that I can debug the problem under the same set of circumstances.

					Jordan