thanks for the report some bitrot may have set in I'll check the instruction sequence on our freebsd machine tomorrow
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:21:03 -0700 Joe Kelsey wrote: > I decided to try installing the entire ast package on FreeBSD instead of > just ksh. So, I took the directions in the ope/ast page on the web site > and tried to follow them. > The package commands seem to work fine for downloading the packages, but > after downloading the packages the package command tries to use the > "ratz" command, presumable to unpack the tgz packages and it simply > fails. Did the package source on the web site change recently so that > it is suddenly trying to use commands which do not exist on FreeBSD? > I remember doing this operation on an Ubuntu Linux system in the past > and not having any problems, but now on my home FreeBSD system it > consistently fails on the "ratz" step. > My eventual goal is to create a port which dows all the work involved, > so maybe the whole ratz thing is superfluous since the port system just > unpacks the tgz files with its own commands and doesn't rely on ratz. I > guess I just disn't realize that the package command relies on ratz, > whic presumably exists on Linux. Yet another Linux incompatability... > /Joe > _______________________________________________ > ast-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users _______________________________________________ ast-users mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.research.att.com/mailman/listinfo/ast-users
