Subject: Re: Problem with pkg_add not running tar
To: Daniel Watt <dwatt@uiuc.edu>
From: Johnny Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 05/19/2005 18:13:48
Daniel Watt wrote:
> I am relatively new to NetBSD, so maybe there is a trivial solution to 
> this. I saw one post in another mailing list 
> (http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc/2005/05/18/0016.html) with the 
> same problem, though there is no resolution yet. I hope this is the 
> correct mailing list to post to.
> 
> Recently pkg_add stopped working. When I turn on verbose output, I get 
> the following:
> 
> ftp> get mysql-server-4.1.10a.tgz "| ( cd /var/tmp/instmp.18588b;  
> --use-compress-program gzip -vvxp -f - | tee /dev/stderr )"
> --use-compress-program: not found
> ftp: local: | ( cd /var/tmp/instmp.18588b;  --use-compress-program gzip 
> -vvxp -f - | tee /dev/stderr ): Broken pipe

If you rebuild pkg_install, it will fix the problem.

	Cheers,

	-- Johnny Lam <jlam@NetBSD.org>