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Date:      Fri, 16 Aug 2002 17:49:00 -0400
From:      Jud <jud@myrealbox.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Chris Simpson" <csimpson@telocity.com>
Subject:   Re: Installation issue...
Message-ID:  <JCSPA9JPLECSOC8GECBMGPL07IDR.3d5d734c@sparky>
In-Reply-To: <002d01c24522$91812600$aa01010a@2k.amsurg.com>

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8/16/2002 8:43:48 AM, "Chris Simpson" <csimpson@telocity.com> 
wrote:

>
>
>  From:   "Chris Simpson" <csimpson@telocity.com>
>  To:     <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
>
>  Subject:Installation issue...
>  Date:   Fri, 16 Aug 2002 07:43:48 -0500
>
>
>
>  Hello!  New guy on the list here...
>   
[snip]
>  ANYWAY, I get to the point where it actually installs the packages, 
and then
>  it seems to lock up when it's installing cvsupit-3.1. There's no error
>  message, just this:
>
>  ADDING PACKAGE/ALL/cvsupit-3.1.tgz From acd0c
>
>  Package cvsupit-3.1 read successfully - waiting for pkg_add(1)
>
>
>  That sounds like it would be a normal message, but in 2 attempts at 
install,
>  I've gotten the same thing. Is that a NIC problem? 
>  Chris

It's caused by the fact that cvsupit has a very large dependency named 
Modula-3 that takes forever to load.  (Documentation somewhere 
mentions this, but I've forgotten where.)  For some reason installing after 
you've finished with the basic system is a lot faster.

Jud




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