sudo pkg_add -r gives "Syntax error..."

Pietro Cerutti gahr at FreeBSD.org
Tue Apr 1 14:55:14 PDT 2008


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Hi list,

since a few days I cannot add packages with "sudo pkg_add -r " anymore..

Example:

| sudo pkg_add -r screen
Error: FTP Unable to get
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/screen.tbz:
Syntax error, command unrecognized
pkg_add: unable to fetch
'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-release/Latest/screen.tbz'
by URL

This happens only with "sudo" (pkg_add -r as root works fine). The
behavior has been seen on different machines, even on a freshly
installed one.

Any clue?

Tnx!

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Pietro Cerutti
gahr at FreeBSD.org

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