On Sat, Mar 03, 2001 at 10:39:15AM +0100, Herwig Henseler wrote:
> 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# 

If I'm not mistaken there was a bug in 1.5 pkgtools; could be it.
Try downloading the package to a local disk and install from here.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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