Subject: installing perl package fails
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Herwig Henseler <hh@ecce-terram.de>
List: port-sparc
Date: 03/03/2001 10:39:15
Hi,
I hae a SPARCstation 10 w/ NetBSD 1.5. I installed several packages, but perl seems to fail (repeatedly, tried on several days):
schnippi# pkg_add ftp://ftp.NetBSD.ORG/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.5/sparc/lang/perl-base-5.6.0.tgz
setenv PKG_PATH='ftp://ftp.NetBSD.ORG/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.5/sparc/lang'
pkg_add: expect: select() timeout
tar: Unexpected EOF on archive file
pkg_add: Cannot fetch file (-1!=226)!
Error on unpackURL('ftp://ftp.NetBSD.ORG/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.5/sparc/lang/perl-base-5.6.0.tgz', '/var/tmp/instmp.00201a')
pkg_add: unable to fetch `ftp://ftp.NetBSD.ORG/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.5/sparc/lang/perl-base-5.6.0.tgz' by URL
schnippi#
Harddisc space is no problem:
schnippi# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd0a 1838260 164900 1581447 9% /
kernfs 1 1 0 100% /kern
schnippi#
What am I doing wrong here? Is the package defect?
TIA,
Herwig
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