On Sat, Sep 09, 2000 at 01:25:18PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> For two days in a row now my pkgsrc sup has failed as follows:
> 
> SUP 8.26 (4.3 BSD) for system software at Sep  9 11:10:02
> SUP Upgrade of current-pkgsrc at Sat Sep  9 11:10:03 2000
> SUP Fileserver 8.13 (4.3 BSD) 5249 on ftp.netbsd.org at 11:10:03
> SUP Requesting changes since Sep  7 10:52:27 2000
> SUP Deleted file pkgsrc/mbone/sdr/scripts/configure
> SUP Deleted directory pkgsrc/mbone/sdr/scripts
> SUP Using compressed file transfer
> SUP: SCM GOAWAY We died trying to gzip pkgsrc/Packages.txt
> SUP: Premature EOF on network input
> SUP: Error receiving file from file server
> SUP: Upgrade of current-pkgsrc aborted at Sep  9 11:18:18 2000
> SUP: Aborted

Hum, works for me:
SUP Upgrade of current-pkgsrc at Sun Sep 10 03:01:32 2000
SUP Fileserver 8.13 (4.3 BSD) 26060 on ftp.netbsd.org at 03:01:32
SUP Requesting changes since Sep  8 16:40:23 2000
SUP Deleted file pkgsrc/mbone/sdr/scripts/configure
SUP Deleted directory pkgsrc/mbone/sdr/scripts
SUP Using compressed file transfer
SUP Receiving file pkgsrc/Packages.txt
[...]
SUP Upgrade of current-pkgsrc completed at Sep 10 03:06:35 2000

Maybe you run sup at the time the pkgsrc tree is being updated ?

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