cvsup on amd64 just broke today

Doug White dwhite at gumbysoft.com
Tue Aug 10 10:13:04 PDT 2004


On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote:

> > Can you run cvsup manually? It appears to be trying to execute a
> > binary as a shell script here.
>
> Tried that, got the same result.
>
> I hadn't noticed it before, but it does strike me as odd that the
> binary package for amd64 would include a file with "i386" in the name,
> and which is, in fact, an ELF 32 binary.  Did something change today
> that would effect the handling of such a file, perhaps?

Possible.  In the interim you might try installing this native amd64
version of cvsup (its a package so pkg_add it):

http://people.freebsd.org/~peter/cvsup-without-gui-16.1h.tbz

If that doesn't work for you I can build a package on my amd64 box.

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