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From: thomas@xs1.xs4all.nl
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Various problems w/ 2.2-960612-SNAP
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 1996 15:32:06 +0200
Organization: XS4ALL, networking for the masses
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On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > The second issue that I have ran into is using sysinstall.  I can NOT add any packages, ports, etc.. using
> > sysinstall (either during the normal install from disk, or in multiuser setup).  sysinstall claims a write_pkg
> > error and a "caught SIGPIPE" (on the debug console).  I am using the FTP style installation media (on a T1).
> 
> That's very strange - I can't reproduce this at all! :-(  Can anyone
> else?  Try:  `/stand/sysinstall mediaSetFTP configPackages' and select
> the Primary site when it asks for an FTP site.

I have the same problem... But not just with FTP :( I'm installing
0612-SNAP, from scratch, and every time i try to install a package, be it
via NFS (both 'assume slow link: YES' and 'default'), or FTP, from my
local mirror (i'm going to install several PCs so i mirrored the whole
distribution) or from one of the ftp.*.freebsd.org sites. 

I tried to extract tcsh-6.06.tgz (try typing
/dist/2.2-960612-SNAP/packages/All/tcsh-6.06.tgz a couple of times and
you'll see why :) myself, with 'tar xvfz', but it extracts only +CONTENTS,
and then gives the message 'skipping to next header'. If i extract it
/locally/, however, on the NFS server or by copying it to a local disk, it
extracts without problems...

I have no problem in writing a script which copies a .tgz, extracts it,
runs pkg_add on it (as a temporary solution of course) and i tried this,
too, but i need to know _exactly_ what to do (what to pass to pkg_add,
what arguments, should it be a compressed archive, an uncompressed
archive, a directory listing, etc)

Thanx for any help,
Thomas.