SV: Packages/Ports problem

[Jimmie Houchin]

Peter Wemm wrote:
> On Thursday 11 December 2003 06:13 am, Jimmie Houchin wrote:
[snip]
>>>>Peter has cvsup-without-gui on his FreeBSD site.
>>>>I just haven't been able to get it.
>>>>To my understanding I currently only have the ftp program on my machine.
>>>>I don't know how to use it to get the package.
>>>
>>>pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui
>>
>>That has failed with something like no such file on server error.
>>
>>But I'm about to do a fresh install this afternoon/evening after I redo
>>my partions and will try again.
> 
> That would be because the port for cvsup hasn't been finished yet.  I do  have 
> a hacked up cvsup binary that might be enough to get you going.
> 
>   fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/cvsup-without-gui-16.1h.tbz
>   pkg_add cvsup-without-gui-16.1h.tbz
> 
> Known problems:  you cannot use compression.  If you set 'compress' on any of 
> your supfiles, it will crash.

Thanks for this information.

I'll see about giving it a try later.

Jimmie Houchin