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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: [2.0 packages] Wy won't they install?
Date: 19 Jan 1995 06:44:44 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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References: <3fkurl$t1d@tipellium.apana.org.au> <3fkvd7$t5p@tipellium.apana.org.au>
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Keywords: FreeBSD packages install CDROM

In article <3fkvd7$t5p@tipellium.apana.org.au>,
Michael Smith <miff@apanix.apana.org.au> wrote:
>tar: can't add file man/man1/xv.1.gz : No such file or directory

That package is a little broken.  I'd like to say that all the 2.0R packages
worked, but they didn't.

>Also, Walnut Creek might want to stop advertising the portal and union
>filesystems on the package until they actually work 8)
>(I knew this in advance, it's no sting to me, but it's wrong 8)

Do you know for a fact that the portal code is broken?
The author who's talk I just attended here seems to feel otherwise! :-)

				Jordan