From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Oct 29 12:56:24 1995 Return-Path: owner-ports Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA17183 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 12:56:24 -0800 Received: from io.org (io.org [142.77.70.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA17174 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 12:56:21 -0800 Received: from flinch.io.org (flinch.io.org [198.133.36.153]) by io.org (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA17425 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 1995 15:56:08 -0500 Date: Sun, 29 Oct 1995 15:56:08 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Tao To: FREEBSD-PORTS-L Subject: pkg_add/pkg_manage in 2.1.0-951026-SNAP Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk I tried adding a few packages today via "pkg_add -v", but I'm getting a bogus "file not found" error. pkg_manage is able to retrieve the description of each package properly, but fails with the same error when attempting to install. Any ideas? # ls -l total 2594 -rw-rw-rw- 1 taob bin 3 Oct 29 15:50 .1702.14db4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 139565 Oct 29 15:49 dvips-5.58.tgz -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 1130453 Oct 29 15:49 latex2e-95.06.tgz drwxr-xr-x 3 root bin 512 Oct 29 01:33 screens -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 1286518 Oct 29 15:49 tex-3.1415.tgz -rw-r--r-- 1 root bin 53518 Oct 29 15:49 xdvi-pl20.tgz # pkg_add -v dvips-5.58.tgz Requested space: 558260 bytes, free space: 117026816 bytes in /var/tmp/instmp.003342 tar: can't open archive ./dvips-5.58.tgz : No such file or directory tar: child returned status 3 tar: +CONTENTS not found in archive Unable to open table of contents file `+CONTENTS' - not a package? 1 package addition(s) failed. # tar -ztvf dvips-5.58.tgz +CONTENTS -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 725 Oct 12 05:08 1995 +CONTENTS -- Brian Tao (BT300, taob@io.org) Systems Administrator, Internex Online Inc. "Though this be madness, yet there is method in't"