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From: "Steve Franks" <stevefranks@ieee.org>
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Subject: new vanilla system fails to install many packages/ports
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I must be missing something obvious.  About 25% of my dependencies
fail to install with errors like:

"install-info: /usr/local/info/dir: empty file"
"pkg-add: command 'install-info --quiet /blah.info' failed"

system is 7.0/i386

Steve