Subject: Previously made packages won't get installed!
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Sung Nae Cho <sucho2@quasar.phys.vt.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/15/2002 18:54:15
Hi,

I have been using NetBSD-1.5ZA with XFree86 4.2.  I wanted to reoreganize 
my partition, therefore, reinstalled NetBSD-1.5ZA.  However, when I try to 
install KDE-2.2.2.tgz package that was made won't install!  When I do 
pkg_add kde-2.2.2.tgz, NetBSD seems to go through all the installation 
processes, showing the verbose etc.  But, when it's done, nothing got 
installed!  I have been having trouble with.  I've tried to add 
separately, kdebase, kdelibs... etc.. none of it gets installed.  What's 
odd is that NetBSD runs through the installation (unpacking) etc... but 
after couple minutes of hard work, when I see the /usr directory, hardly 
nothing is installed.  Is package system broken or what?  At the moment, 
the only option for me is to remake from pkgsrc which really "piss" me off 
after all that time I spent compiling the whole kde packages (took 15 
hours to copile).  Sorry for the foul language.  Anyone know of the quick 
remedy to this problem?  I still haven't erased the *.tgz files for kde 
yet just in case.


Yours sincerely,
Sung N. Cho,
Friday, Feb. 15, 2002.