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To: Kiril Mitev <kiril@ideaglobal.com>
Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: failure installing CVSUP .... 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 24 Aug 1999 16:45:47 -0000."
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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 23:52:46 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
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> Sorry for the cross-post, I dont know which of -ports and -stable 
> is more appropriate for this.

Neither, this should have gone to -questions. :)

> running: (lines folded by me :-)
> 
> pkg_add \
> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CVSup/cvsup-bin-16.0.tar.gz  

Ummmm.  Files ending in .tgz are packages.  Files ending in tar.gz
are gzipped tarballs which SHOULD NEVER BE FED TO PKG_ADD. :)

- Jordan


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