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Date:      Sun, 30 Apr 1995 22:40:33 +0400
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage" <ache@astral.msk.su>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        asami@cs.berkeley.edu, bugs@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: pkg_manage has a problem?
Message-ID:  <SKXczel0MP@astral.msk.su>
In-Reply-To: <17902.799260224@time.cdrom.com>; from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Sun, 30 Apr 1995 09:43:44 -0700
References:  <17902.799260224@time.cdrom.com>

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In message <17902.799260224@time.cdrom.com> Jordan K. Hubbard writes:

>> 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.

It is package-independed. I just got the same fail exactly
after installing another package.

-- 
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