Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 22:19:40 -0400 (EDT) From: "Brian T. Schellenberger - Personal Account" <babbleon@mercury.interpath.com> To: 73220.604@compuserve.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: packages installation problem Message-ID: <199604190219.WAA11578@mercury.interpath.com> In-Reply-To: <199604182200.AA05186@monet.jsc.nasa.gov> from "73220.604@compuserve.com" at Apr 18, 96 05:00:23 pm
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This just happened to me. The problem is that pkg_add is broken:
it depends on the *name* of the file to determine behavior, which is
not reliable with DOS partitions.
Two fixes:
1. I wrote my own "mypkg" scripts that work in this situation; mail
me if you want them; or
2. Copy each package to a ufs partition and rename it <whatever>.tgz.
Then pkg_add will work.
--
Brian T. Schellenberger, the Man from Babble-On.
"Someday I'll get around to importing all the cool quotes from my other
account's .sig files." http://mercury.interpath.com/~babbleon
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