Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 08:50:02 -0800 (PST) From: "Jay Krell" <jay.krell@cornell.edu> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/14744: tksetathome hangs sysinstall due to lack ofemailaddress Message-ID: <199911091650.IAA25980@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/14744; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Jay Krell" <jay.krell@cornell.edu> To: "Brett Taylor" <brett@peloton.runet.edu> Cc: <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: ports/14744: tksetathome hangs sysinstall due to lack ofemailaddress Date: Tue, 9 Nov 1999 08:41:53 -0800 Brett, Phew! Ok, sorry to be unclear. I'll open another problem report. The looping is probably more what the tk/e package did, insisting on a yes answer about a license. I opened a pr on that too, but these can probably be combined like you say. The simplest fix, if there is infrastructure for it, is to disallow sysinstall from listing these packages. - Jay -----Original Message----- From: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.runet.edu> To: Jay Krell <jay.krell@cornell.edu> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG <freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Tuesday, November 09, 1999 8:22 AM Subject: Re: ports/14744: tksetathome hangs sysinstall due to lack ofemailaddress >Hi Jay, > >On Tue, 9 Nov 1999, Jay Krell wrote: > >> Brett, Running the package from pkg_add is probably how you say, just >> say no. But if you run it from sysinstall (realize, at that point, new >> user, I didn't know how to run pkg_add other than the initial >> sysinstall), you get a looping prompt on a different screen, you can't >> actually respond to it. > >:-) > >I think we're finally getting somewhere. The setiathome install does seem >to fail (while using sysinstall) on a running system. In fact I don't >even get the looping Jay describes - just sits there waiting for the >pkg_add to finish. Note this is on a running system - I tried it once in >an xterm and once at the console - neither worked and both hung. I >haven't dug through but one thought I had is that sysinstall may be trying >to put the interactive portion on the holographic terminal and this >doesn't work after the machine is up and running? -shrug- > >I'm trying to install on another small, old machine today so if I get it >to work (DHCP scan isn't working although it works on Windoze and every >other machine I've installed recently here) I'll try to add the setiathome >package via sysinstall during the initial install to see if that works. > >In any case, this PR should probably be closed and another one opened for >setiathome (and possibly other interactive packages) while being installed >w/ sysinstall. > >Brett >***************************************************** >Dr. Brett Taylor brett@peloton.runet.edu * >Dept of Chem and Physics * >Curie 39A (540) 831-6147 * >Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics * >Walker 234 (540) 831-5410 * >***************************************************** > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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