Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 07:05:15 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Newbie CVSUP q - waiting for pkg_add(1) error Message-ID: <20020213060515.GD970@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <002601c1b451$f18c77f0$6401a8c0@racerx> References: <002601c1b451$f18c77f0$6401a8c0@racerx>
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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
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