From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 28 18:26:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA23829 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 18:26:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from Dorm-35861 (Dorm-35861.RH.UH.EDU [129.7.140.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA23739 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 18:25:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wotan@Dorm-35844.RH.UH.EDU) Received: from localhost (wotan@localhost) by Dorm-35861 (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id UAA05237; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 20:25:53 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: Dorm-35861: wotan owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 20:25:42 -0600 (CST) From: Jonathan Fosburgh Reply-To: jef53313@bayou.uh.edu To: kris@airnet.net cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pkg_add chokes, returns with -1 when run from /stand/sysinstall :-0 In-Reply-To: <34CFADD6.92ED687D@ninbsdbox.dyn.ml.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- I have been having similar problems. On some packages it works properly, on others, it simply exits without doing anything. (2.2 SNAP, I have had this problem over several upgrades. Testing. On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Kris Kirby wrote: > I have tried to add linux_devel-0.2 (package) to my system twice, once > under /stand/sysinstall, and once manually. /stand/sysinstall reports > pkg_add returned with -1. The package got here, at least when I manually > ftp'd from wcarchive. This mystified me to say the least: > > ninbsdbox: {5} pkg_add linux_devel-0.2.tgz > ninbsdbox: {6} > > It doesn't install it, /var/db/pkg reports: > > ninbsdbox: {6} ls /var/db/pkg | grep "linux" > linux_lib-2.4 > ninbsdbox: {7} > > Yes, I RTFM'd it, I was running as root, etc. More weird stuff: > > ninbsdbox: {11} pkg_add -nv linux_devel-0.2.tgz > ninbsdbox: {12} > > Nothing! > > ninbsdbox: {12} ls -la |grep "linux" > -rw-rw-r-- 1 root wheel 10795081 Jan 28 07:17 linux_devel-0.2.tgz > > I'm thinking this *should* work. pkg_info does. Help? Please? > -- > > Kris Kirby > ------------------------------------------- > TGIFreeBSD... 'Nuff said. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQBVAwUBNM/osPx1aCmcyaTdAQFFTwIAkhPgMeYrxSNx4R6qZ7gMLsogzJ/vluEt pDvMxWIL7l9mmKZm8b3H6N0QScuInDH/CjqaDTs2ldRCnRW0orTtNw== =KSi4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----