Subject: pkg_add failures in detail
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: None <OinkFreeBiker@att.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/01/2001 17:15:22
Details about my pkg_add error woes...

I am using NetBSD 1.5 from the latest and greatest Wasabi 
4-CDROM release.
The package comes from the same set, PACKAGE RELEASE DISK 
1.

Here are some (perhaps most) of the dependencies which 
fail either to "add" or "autoload". I don't know what any 
of them are beyond the names.

Mesa>=3.2.1
MesaLib-3.4
glu-3.4
glut-3.4
jpeg-6.b
tiff-*
xpm-3.4k
png>=1.0.6
libungif-*
kdelibs-1.1.2.tgz
ncurses>=4.2
kdebase-1.1.2.tgz
kdemultimedia-1.1.2.tgz

Some of those show up "failed!" more than once. I tried 
to do pkg_add two separate ways, both from the su-ship 
from within own user-ness...

: {40} chdr /cdrom/i386/All/
: {41} pkg_add kde-1.1.2.tgz

...and...

: {42} chdir /cdrom/i386/X11
: {43} pkg_add kde-1.1.2.tgz

Probably there is something fundamental that I am doing 
wrong. This is on an IBM ThinkPad 380Z but without any 
PCMCIA devices yet inserted. And nothing is plugged into 
the USB. This is the machine I purchased used from Peter 
Seebach, who said that NetBSD ran fine on it. So the 
machine is okay. It must be me. But I don't have a clue 
what.

So next I tried this...

: {44} mkdir /pkg
: {45} mkdir /pkg/All
: {46} cp /cdrom/i386/x11/*.* /pkg/
: {47} chdir /pkg
: {48} add_pkg /pkg/kde-1.1.2.tgz

...and got all the same "add of...failed!" messages. I'm 
kinda stumped. Any clues?


Alas and alak,

Gan Starling
Kalamazoo MI