Re: error during package installation

2014-08-16 Thread Philip Guenther
On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 5:07 PM, Long Wind wrote: > Thank STeve Andre' I use script method > > I probably will disappoint Ingo Schwarze, perhaps it's not really > error, but it made me feel uneasy: > > Error from > http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/OpenBSD/5.5/packages/i386/quirks-1.113.tgz > Redirecte

Re: error during package installation

2014-08-16 Thread Long Wind
Thank STeve Andre' I use script method I probably will disappoint Ingo Schwarze, perhaps it's not really error, but it made me feel uneasy: Error from http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/OpenBSD/5.5/packages/i386/quirks-1.113.tgz Redirected to http://211.167.105.78:82/1Q2W3E4R5T6Y7U8I9O0P1Z2X3C4V5B/ftp.

Re: error during package installation

2014-08-16 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi, Long Wind wrote on Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 07:27:09AM +0800: > how to direct ouput by a command to file (so I can report error here) > > pkg_add nedit > t1 > > doesn't work That only catches standard output, not standard error. Both of the following should work: $ pkg_add nedit > t1 2>&1

error during package installation

2014-08-16 Thread Long Wind
how to direct ouput by a command to file (so I can report error here) pkg_add nedit > t1 doesn't work Thanks!

Re: Package installation

2014-08-03 Thread STeve Andre'
On 08/02/14 07:17, Gustav Fransson Nyvell wrote: On 08/02/14 13:13, Gustav Fransson Nyvell wrote: On 08/02/14 12:54, Marc Espie wrote: On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 12:26:06PM +0200, Gustav Fransson Nyvell wrote: Hi, there, I wanted to run something by you, mkay. About package management. I wonder

Re: Package installation

2014-08-02 Thread Charles Musser
The need for multiple versions of an application on one machine doesn't manifest that often. Asking the system to tie itself into knots for this purpose is likely to result in bloat, convolution and less reliability. Some contexts support and indeed encourage the notion of many versions. For insta

Re: Package installation

2014-08-02 Thread Nick Holland
On 08/02/14 06:25, Gustav Fransson Nyvell wrote: > Hi, there, > > I wanted to run something by you, mkay. About package management. I > wonder if this has been shouted at already. I remember from SunOS that > packages are installed in a different manner than let's say Red Hat and > of course Op

Re: Package installation

2014-08-02 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 01:13:56PM +0200, Gustav Fransson Nyvell wrote: > entirely different is needed? Okay, maybe I should complain about the status > quo... thing is when packages install in /var, /usr, /etc and /opt they're > so spread out it's hard to know what is what. This might be because I

Re: Package installation

2014-08-02 Thread Gustav Fransson Nyvell
On 08/02/14 13:13, Gustav Fransson Nyvell wrote: On 08/02/14 12:54, Marc Espie wrote: On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 12:26:06PM +0200, Gustav Fransson Nyvell wrote: Hi, there, I wanted to run something by you, mkay. About package management. I wonder if this has been shouted at already. I remember f

Re: Package installation

2014-08-02 Thread Gustav Fransson Nyvell
On 08/02/14 12:54, Marc Espie wrote: On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 12:26:06PM +0200, Gustav Fransson Nyvell wrote: Hi, there, I wanted to run something by you, mkay. About package management. I wonder if this has been shouted at already. I remember from SunOS that packages are installed in a differen

Re: Package installation

2014-08-02 Thread Marc Espie
On Sat, Aug 02, 2014 at 12:26:06PM +0200, Gustav Fransson Nyvell wrote: > Hi, there, > > I wanted to run something by you, mkay. About package management. I wonder > if this has been shouted at already. I remember from SunOS that packages are > installed in a different manner than let's say Red Ha

Package installation

2014-08-02 Thread Gustav Fransson Nyvell
Hi, there, I wanted to run something by you, mkay. About package management. I wonder if this has been shouted at already. I remember from SunOS that packages are installed in a different manner than let's say Red Hat and of course OpenBSD. They install it in the form /pkgs/PROGRAM/VERSION, e

Re: package installation script hints

2005-08-26 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 09:58:20AM -0400, Will H. Backman wrote: > Shouldn't it suggest what packages to update because of a newer version? pkg_add -u doesn't have a notion of `newer version'. It stops at `this is the package whose name most closely matches your existing package'. It matches the

Re: package installation script hints

2005-08-26 Thread Will H. Backman
> -Original Message- > From: Marc Espie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 11:31 AM > To: Will H. Backman > Cc: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: package installation script hints > > On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 09:58:20AM -0400, Will H. Backman wr

Re: package installation script hints

2005-08-26 Thread Will H. Backman
> -Original Message- > From: Marc Espie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 26, 2005 9:39 AM > To: Will H. Backman > Cc: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: package installation script hints > > On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 09:28:04AM -0400, Will H. Backma

Re: package installation script hints

2005-08-26 Thread Marc Espie
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 09:28:04AM -0400, Will H. Backman wrote: > > > > > 2 - How is pkg_add -u working for people? > > > > It works fine for me. I don't know about other people yet, you tell > me... > > Aug 24 snapshot, trying just "pkg_add -u" causes it to say updating > package -> package fo

Re: package installation script hints

2005-08-26 Thread Will H. Backman
> > 2 - How is pkg_add -u working for people? > > It works fine for me. I don't know about other people yet, you tell me... Aug 24 snapshot, trying just "pkg_add -u" causes it to say updating package -> package for every single one of my installed packages, and it then asks me to run pkg_add -r f

Re: package installation script hints

2005-08-26 Thread Janne Johansson
Paul de Weerd wrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:06:29AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: | > 2 - How is pkg_add -u working for people? | | It works fine for me. I don't know about other people yet, you tell me... I haven't used it very much yet, but so far everything works great for me. But this is ju

Re: package installation script hints

2005-08-26 Thread Paul de Weerd
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 12:06:29AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: | > 2 - How is pkg_add -u working for people? | | It works fine for me. I don't know about other people yet, you tell me... I haven't used it very much yet, but so far everything works great for me. But this is just basic pkg_add -u/pkg_

Re: package installation script hints

2005-08-25 Thread Marc Espie
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:08:53AM -0400, Will H. Backman wrote: > 1 - If the new host happens to have one of those packages installed, > perhaps because I stopped the installation of packages the first time, > then pkg_add will stop when it hits an already installed package. I can > fix that with

Re: package installation script hints

2005-08-25 Thread Will H. Backman
> -Original Message- > From: Marc Espie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2005 6:43 PM > To: Will H. Backman > Cc: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: package installation script hints > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:35:13PM -0400, Will H. Backma

Re: package installation script hints

2005-08-24 Thread Marc Espie
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:35:13PM -0400, Will H. Backman wrote: > 1. Packages get installed in a sub-optimal order. Quite often one > package on the list will have already been installed as a dependency. I > think my script downloads the redundant package before deciding that it > was already in

package installation script hints

2005-08-24 Thread Will H. Backman
I'm looking for hints and criticism for a package installation script. I do a full install, and then install a set of packages. To get the list of packages to install on another machine, I just grabbed a directory listing from /var/db/pkg, put them in my script, and then run that script on a

Re: package installation fatal error

2005-06-24 Thread Mr.Slippery
Qv6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) dixit: > Folks: > > Brand new to openbsd. Brand new to *nix too? > #PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OPENBSD/3.7/packages/i386/ (...) > ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OPENBSD/3.7/packages/i386/snort-2.1.2.tgz The issue is that OpenBSD is not the same as OPENBSD. -- |---

Re: package installation fatal error

2005-06-24 Thread Qv6
Thanks all! > s/OPENBSD/OpenBSD/

Re: package installation fatal error

2005-06-24 Thread J. Lievisse Adriaanse
Could you show us the output of "env" for both shells? Jasper On Fri, 24 Jun 2005 09:23:58 -0500 Qv6 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Folks: > > Brand new to openbsd. > > Just installed obsd without any of the X sets, game*, or bsd.mp > installed, on an intel pc. Every seems to be on the up and

Re: package installation fatal error

2005-06-24 Thread Dimitri Georganas
Qv6 wrote: Folks: Brand new to openbsd. Just installed obsd without any of the X sets, game*, or bsd.mp installed, on an intel pc. Every seems to be on the up and up except that installing packges gives a fatal error, and there is nothing in the log files to tell me anything about this part

Re: package installation fatal error

2005-06-24 Thread Qv6
On Friday 24 June 2005 09:23 am, Qv6 wrote: > Folks: > > > Here are the steps I took: > > #PKG_PATH=ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OPENBSD/3.7/packages/i386/ > #export PKG_PATH > # Never mind folks. I found out the cause: PKG_PATH was not properly defined. here is the original PKG_PATH definition

package installation fatal error

2005-06-24 Thread Qv6
Folks: Brand new to openbsd. Just installed obsd without any of the X sets, game*, or bsd.mp installed, on an intel pc. Every seems to be on the up and up except that installing packges gives a fatal error, and there is nothing in the log files to tell me anything about this particular error.