On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 03:20:23AM +0200, Halil Demirezen wrote: > I Robert, > I downloaded your gnu-kfreebsd.tar.bz2. Step by Step, > I firstly, copied /lib and /libfbsd to the filesystem > of FreeBSD installed box at base level. Then, randomly > i (cp -rfp)ed the other directories. However, some of > the binaries that require lib* did not get great results > and some installation scripts errored out with a message > : install-info(/usr/share/info/ipc.info.gz): failed to > lock dir for editing! File exists. Try deleting /usr/ > share/info/dir.lock. I surely tried it. However, there > has been no further step i could take to overcome this. > > If you are able to run your bz2 in your freebsd box safely > and if it is working ok. Would you tell me what steps > should i take to make the system work. what steps to > fork getty safely?
The bug you describe is a known one in dpkg which slipped into our tarball. It should work fine with a more recent tarball, but the current one in ftp.gnuab.org still has some bugs. I suggest you wait for the next upload when it is fixed. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
