misc/62965: pkg_add -r fails if fetching multiple packages at a time

Jochen Gensch incmc at gmx.de
Tue Feb 17 06:50:21 PST 2004


>Number:         62965
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       pkg_add -r fails if fetching multiple packages at a time
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Feb 17 06:50:20 PST 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Jochen Gensch
>Release:        5.2 + 4.8
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD incmc.da-butze.uga 5.2.1-RC2 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RC2 #0: Mon Feb 16 19:47:12 CET 2004     root at incmc.da-butze.uga:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386

>Description:
If you try to add multiple packages at a time by using "pkg_add -r Packet_1 Packet_2 Packet_3 ..." then it will abort sometime with the error messsage as follows:

Xmms supports Gzipped and uncompressed skins.  If you would like to use
Zip format skins you will need to ensure archivers/unzip is installed.

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Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.2-release/Latest/xmms-arts.tbz...pkg_add: fatal error during execution: getcwd
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This has occured on different machines here, when I tried to install 2 or 4 packages at a time.



>How-To-Repeat:
Try to install multiple binaries by using "pkg_add -r Packet_1 Packet_2...". 
>Fix:
      
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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