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Date:      Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:02:00 -0700
From:      Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
To:        Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
Cc:        =?ISO-8859-15?Q?S=F8ren_Neigaard?= <neigaard@e-box.dk>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: pkg_add failure on 4.6.2
Message-ID:  <3D9375C8.3040206@owt.com>
References:  <1221086500.20020926223157@e-box.dk> <3D9371B6.2000106@owt.com>

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Kent Stewart wrote:
> 
> 
> Søren Neigaard wrote:
> 
>> I just installed 4.6.2, and I wanted to install cvsup. So I brought
>> the cvsup-16-1f.tbz from ftp.freebsd.org, and did a
>> 'pkg_add cvsup-16-1f.tbz', but whenever I run pkg_add, it core dumps.
>>
>> How can I redirect the error message from pkg_add to a file, and how
>> do I attache files with 'mail', so I can send you some more info on
>> this?
> 
> 
> I don't think you can get what you want to install. Your system doesn't 
> recognize the new format and that is why pkg_add is dying. They have 
> reverted to the old format but that will take a while. I would grab 1e 
> from http://people.freebsd.org/~jdp/s1g/ and then make and add the 
> current port. Version 1f doesn't take long to build.
> 

Look at the mirrors. I found cvsup-16.1f.tgz on ftp9.freebsd.org. This 
version should pkg_add on your system.

Kent

-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

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