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Date:      Thu, 26 Sep 2002 23:39:26 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-15?B?U/hyZW4gTmVpZ2FhcmQ=?= <neigaard@e-box.dk>
To:        owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re[2]: pkg_add failure on 4.6.2
Message-ID:  <965135531.20020926233926@e-box.dk>
In-Reply-To: <3D9379B9.2010403@owt.com>
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Thursday, September 26, 2002, 11:18:49 PM, Kent wrote:



KS> Søren Neigaard wrote:
>> Thursday, September 26, 2002, 10:44:38 PM, Kent wrote:
>> 
>> KS> 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?
>>>
>> 
>> KS> I don't think you can get what you want to install. Your system 
>> KS> doesn't recognize the new format and that is why pkg_add is dying. 
>> KS> They have reverted to the old format but that will take a while. I 
>> KS> would grab 1e from http://people.freebsd.org/~jdp/s1g/ and then make 
>> KS> and add the current port. Version 1f doesn't take long to build.
>> 
>> KS> Kent
>> 
>> I did not get that one? Does pkg_add not reconize the new format, or?
>> Even if I try to run pkg_add without any parameters, it still dies, is
>> it pkg_add that is broken?
>> 
>> What do you mean with 1e and 1f? I'm not into this cvsup thing, I just
>> need it to update my ports tree. Should I get the source and build it,
>> and if so, where should I place the source prior to build? Will this
>> fix my problem, or is it an entire new problem?
>> 

KS> No, you do not have to build it. You can download version ...1f.tgz 
KS> from one of the mirrors and add it. The pkg_add on your system does 
KS> not recognize the new compression scheme. Find a ...1f.tgz that you 
KS> can download and pkg_add it.

KS> Kent

I have now found the 1f.tgz, but it still core dumps!? As said,
pkg_add even core dumps if I just run pkg_add without specifying any
file it should add, it's like my pkg_add is broken or something.

I have no idea what to look after in the dump file, but it complains
about some bus failure or something. If only I knew how to redirect
the error message to 'mail', then I could mail it to my wondoze box,
and then mail the error message to this list. Maybe that could help me
to figure out what the problem is :)

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