Strangeness with FreeBSD 4.2 and CVSUP install
Hey, I have an ancicent box I've inherited, output of uname -a is: bash-2.04# uname -a FreeBSD dropbox.. 4.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Nov 20 13:02:55 GMT 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 Obviously, she's got a few miles on her, and cvsup wasn't installed. I downloaded the tarball from the FreeBSD ftp server, untar'd it, and tried to do a make install, then got this ugliness: error gzip -cn pkg_version.1 pkg_version.1.gz === Installing for pkg_install-20040802 === Generating temporary packing list ln: illegal option -- h usage: ln [-fisv] file1 file2 ln [-fisv] file ... directory link file1 file2 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/pkg_install. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/textproc/sed_inplace. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/lang/ezm3. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/net/cvsup. /error Can someone help? Thanks in advance. __ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strangeness with FreeBSD 4.2 and CVSUP install
Ralph wrote: Hey, I have an ancicent box I've inherited, output of uname -a is: bash-2.04# uname -a FreeBSD dropbox.. 4.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Nov 20 13:02:55 GMT 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC i386 Obviously, she's got a few miles on her, and cvsup wasn't installed. I downloaded the tarball from the FreeBSD ftp server, untar'd it, and tried to do a make install, then got this ugliness: error gzip -cn pkg_version.1 pkg_version.1.gz === Installing for pkg_install-20040802 === Generating temporary packing list ln: illegal option -- h usage: ln [-fisv] file1 file2 ln [-fisv] file ... directory link file1 file2 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/pkg_install. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/textproc/sed_inplace. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/lang/ezm3. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/net/cvsup. /error Can someone help? Thanks in advance. Tried pkg_add? Probably won't work as it's unlikely to find packages dated from that time, but might be worth a shot, as it would only take a second to try. You might try looking around for a cvsup version that's contemporary to the boxen and going from there. But a quick Google doesn't show it to me. OTOH, it's likely to need to be stepping stoned quite a bit anyway, so what not backup the data and do a clean install of 4.10 or 5.3? Kevin Kinsey DaleCo, S.P. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strangeness with FreeBSD 4.2 and CVSUP install
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 08:36:06AM -0800, Ralph wrote: Obviously, she's got a few miles on her, and cvsup wasn't installed. I downloaded the tarball from the FreeBSD ftp server, untar'd it, and tried to do a make install, then got this ugliness: The error is because of the vintage of your release, as you can probably guess (ln -h was added after 4.2) You can try downloading a cvsup package for a later 4.x release, but this may not work. It's worth trying though. Kris pgphvPJdHMoJM.pgp Description: PGP signature
