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From: Karl Wiebe <karl@dnai.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Pkg_add fails on 1026 SNAP
Date: 2 Nov 1995 13:27:59 GMT
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ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Chris Mauritz) wrote:
>witr@spooky.rwwa.com wrote:
>: Is it me or the software? Every pkg I try to install fails...:
[ snip, snip, snip! ]
>: harvey# pkg_add bash-1.14.5.tgz
>: tar: can't open archive ./bash-1.14.5.tgz : No such file or directory
>: tar: child returned status 3
>: tar: +CONTENTS not found in archive
>: Unable to open table of contents file `+CONTENTS' - not a package?
There appear to be *many* bugs in the pkg_{add,remove,info} utilities in the
last few SNAPs.
I think Jordan mentioned this himself. I only hope they don't make it onto the
2.1-RELEASE CD...
As workaround, in many cases pkg_add will work if you give the full pathname
of the .tgz file, but there are other bugs too. As an example, I tried to abort
a very verbose pkg_info command with multiple ^C ( OK, I know it was not the
most sensible way... ) and the result was ALL MY PACKAGES WERE DELETED!!!
I must therefore recommend extreme caution using these utilities.
--Karl