Hi,
Not sure if this is a new problem, or specific to 4.1 on powerpc, or all
architecture.
But I setup a few times an old iMac for my sun that really wanted to try
OpenBSD desktop setup and so far loved it! (;>
In the process of installing packages on it, I always have the same
issue recurring at various places, but always constant however.
I can do pkg_add ftp://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/4.1/packages/`machine
-a`/enlightenment-0.16.7.2p2.tgz or many other packages, like the
kdebase-3.5.6.tgz, etc.
All goes well, but some dependency will stop and freeze the download
when all is finish and the screen display 100%, or sometime 96% and
nothing happen after that.
looking at top, etc. I see that the process of download is really finish
and the only ting I do is to kill the ftp process, nothing else and then
the pkg_add process continue as normal and all is install properly, etc.
This happen on many packages, sometime twice in the same process out or
50 for example.
I never had to do this before and I haven't tested, or have problem on
i386 or AMD64 yet. I am not saying there is issue on them, or that there
isn't either. I haven't tested that yet as I install a much limited
number of packages on my servers and never did I experience this problem
yet.
I don't know if that's following many changes to the pkg_add that was
done for 4.1 and definitely continue heavy now from source-changes@, but
I thought to pass that along and if you need more details, I could
provide some. Didn't try current yet as the kid spend a lots of time
ready the FAQ to get this going and I had to help out because of the
issue on the powerpc install not creating the MSDOS partition properly
for the i one. I have to follow step by step the process here:
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ppc&m=117871289207004&w=2
Meaning trick the disklabel to get it going.
Best,
Daniel
