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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!surfnet.nl!news.unisource.nl!xs4all!xs1.xs4all.nl!thomas From: thomas@xs1.xs4all.nl Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Various problems w/ 2.2-960612-SNAP Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 15:32:06 +0200 Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses Lines: 36 Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.93.960619144122.16097E-100000@xs1.xs4all.nl> References: <Dt3tE4.49C@iceonline.com> <31C5AC30.59E2B600@FreeBSD.org> Reply-To: thomas@xs1.xs4all.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: xs1.xs4all.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-XS4ALL-Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 15:32:16 MET DST In-Reply-To: <31C5AC30.59E2B600@FreeBSD.org> On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > The second issue that I have ran into is using sysinstall. I can NOT add any packages, ports, etc.. using > > sysinstall (either during the normal install from disk, or in multiuser setup). sysinstall claims a write_pkg > > error and a "caught SIGPIPE" (on the debug console). I am using the FTP style installation media (on a T1). > > That's very strange - I can't reproduce this at all! :-( Can anyone > else? Try: `/stand/sysinstall mediaSetFTP configPackages' and select > the Primary site when it asks for an FTP site. I have the same problem... But not just with FTP :( I'm installing 0612-SNAP, from scratch, and every time i try to install a package, be it via NFS (both 'assume slow link: YES' and 'default'), or FTP, from my local mirror (i'm going to install several PCs so i mirrored the whole distribution) or from one of the ftp.*.freebsd.org sites. I tried to extract tcsh-6.06.tgz (try typing /dist/2.2-960612-SNAP/packages/All/tcsh-6.06.tgz a couple of times and you'll see why :) myself, with 'tar xvfz', but it extracts only +CONTENTS, and then gives the message 'skipping to next header'. If i extract it /locally/, however, on the NFS server or by copying it to a local disk, it extracts without problems... I have no problem in writing a script which copies a .tgz, extracts it, runs pkg_add on it (as a temporary solution of course) and i tried this, too, but i need to know _exactly_ what to do (what to pass to pkg_add, what arguments, should it be a compressed archive, an uncompressed archive, a directory listing, etc) Thanx for any help, Thomas.