From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 24 10: 5:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from pawn.primelocation.net (pawn.primelocation.net [205.161.238.235]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ED6F15B55; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 10:04:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jedgar@fxp.org) Received: by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id E3BA7F818; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:02:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pawn.primelocation.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D57149B17; Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:02:47 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:02:47 -0400 (EDT) From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" X-Sender: jedgar@pawn.primelocation.net To: Kiril Mitev Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: failure installing CVSUP .... In-Reply-To: <199908241645.QAA40005@loki.ideaglobal.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Kiril Mitev wrote: > Sorry for the cross-post, I dont know which of -ports and -stable > is more appropriate for this. > > running: (lines folded by me :-) > > pkg_add \ > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CVSup/cvsup-bin-16.0.tar.gz > > > produces: (lines folded by me :-) > > Requested space: 5584632 bytes, free space: 190273536 bytes > in /var/tmp/instmp.g39996 > tar: +CONTENTS not found in archive > pkg_add: unable to open table of contents file `+CONTENTS' - not a package? > pkg_add: 1 package addition(s) failed > Read the errors...that is not a package (note the tar.gz, *not* .tgz). You probably want: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages/All/cvsup-bin-16.0.tgz ----- Chris D. Faulhaber | All the true gurus I've met never System/Network Administrator, | claimed they were one, and always Reality Check Information, Inc. | pointed to someone better. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message