Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 13:02:47 -0400 (EDT) From: "Chris D. Faulhaber" <jedgar@fxp.org> To: Kiril Mitev <kiril@ideaglobal.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: failure installing CVSUP .... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908241301070.39740-100000@pawn.primelocation.net> In-Reply-To: <199908241645.QAA40005@loki.ideaglobal.com>
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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 <jedgar@fxp.org> | 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
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