From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 18 19:19:59 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id TAA23870 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 19:19:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mercury.interpath.com (babbleon@mercury.interpath.com [199.72.1.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id TAA23864 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 19:19:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from babbleon@localhost) by mercury.interpath.com (8.6.12/8.6.9) id WAA11578; Thu, 18 Apr 1996 22:19:41 -0400 From: "Brian T. Schellenberger - Personal Account" Message-Id: <199604190219.WAA11578@mercury.interpath.com> Subject: Re: packages installation problem To: 73220.604@compuserve.com Date: Thu, 18 Apr 1996 22:19:40 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Questions) In-Reply-To: <199604182200.AA05186@monet.jsc.nasa.gov> from "73220.604@compuserve.com" at Apr 18, 96 05:00:23 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 .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