From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 12 22: 5:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1232C37B402 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 22:05:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16asXc-0002fs-00 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 06:05:16 +0000 Received: from angel.raggedclown.net (angel.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.7]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [buffy]) with ESMTP id 2159913040 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 07:05:15 +0100 (CET) Received: by angel.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [angel], from userid 1001) id 61EFD22590; Wed, 13 Feb 2002 07:05:15 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 07:05:15 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie CVSUP q - waiting for pkg_add(1) error Message-ID: <20020213060515.GD970@raggedclown.net> References: <002601c1b451$f18c77f0$6401a8c0@racerx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <002601c1b451$f18c77f0$6401a8c0@racerx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Feb 12, 2002 at 09:47:32PM -0800, Mike Kanaly wrote: > I've installed FreeBSD 4.5, and am happy with it so far. I purchased > Annelise Anderson's book, and read that I should install cvsup. > However, my computer doesn't seem to like it very much ;) > > I'm having trouble adding CVSUP. When I go to /stand/sysinstall and > attempt to add packages - networking utilities - cvsup, I then choose > install, and my computer sits here and hangs forever. It says "Adding > packages/ALL/Cvsupit-3.0.tgz from acd0c" and at the bottom it says > "Package cvsupit-3.0 read successfully - waiting for pkg_add(1)" and > just hangs. any ideas? Try alt/F'ing to another console. You will probably find a menu of options there waiting for you to fill in order to create a cvsupfile for you. In all probability it will ignore any attempts at you doing so. I initially installed cvsupit "by hand" because of the above oddity. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message