From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 10 14:42:49 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id OAA05813 for current-outgoing; Wed, 10 May 1995 14:42:49 -0700 Received: from ibp.ibp.fr (ibp.ibp.fr [132.227.60.30]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id OAA05805 for ; Wed, 10 May 1995 14:42:41 -0700 Received: from blaise.ibp.fr (blaise.ibp.fr [132.227.60.1]) by ibp.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with ESMTP id XAA20883 for ; Wed, 10 May 1995 23:42:34 +0200 Received: from (uucp@localhost) by blaise.ibp.fr (8.6.12/jtpda-5.0) with UUCP id XAA11903 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 10 May 1995 23:42:33 +0200 Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.frmug.fr.net (8.6.11/keltia-uucp-1.21) id BAA13453 for freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 10 May 1995 01:32:17 +0200 From: Ollivier Robert Message-Id: <199505092332.BAA13453@keltia.frmug.fr.net> Subject: Pkg_info and friends To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Current Users' list) Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 01:32:16 +0200 (MET DST) Reply-To: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.0-BUILT-19950506 ctm#646 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Length: 1068 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jordan, could you please explain what's going on with all the pkg_* programs ? Why do they have to use tar for ? 245 [1:29] root@keltia:compile/KELTIA# setenv PKG_PATH /var/db/pkg 246 [1:29] root@keltia:compile/KELTIA# pkg_info -a 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 'mpeg_lib-1.1' available. 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 'xcdplayer-2.2' available. 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 'xview32_bin' available. Three of my installed packages come from old binary packages and the rest has been installed by the bsd.port.mk when I "make install" a port. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- The daemon is FREE! -=- roberto@keltia.frmug.fr.net FreeBSD keltia 2.0-BUILT-19950506 #4: Sat May 6 10:23:04 MET DST 1995