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From: hedley@inferno.cs.bris.ac.uk (David Hedley)
Subject: Re: Pkg_add fails on 1026 SNAP
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Date: Fri, 3 Nov 1995 11:54:16 GMT
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Jose Rodriguez (b@iquest.com) wrote:
: In article <479d33$mih@shore.shore.net>, witr@spooky.rwwa.com says...
: |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?
: It's not just you.  I am having the exact same problems with it.

I too noticed this problem. The only way I can get round it is by typing:

cd /usr/local
pkg_add /an/explicit/path/package.tgz

At which point it seems to work.

Unfortunately pkg_manage doesn't do this and hence doesn't work....

David (waiting expectantly for a fix...)
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 David Hedley (David.Hedley@bris.ac.uk)
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