Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 16:56:54 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: FreeBSD Ports <ports@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: [john@sixgirls.org: [dn-articles] FreeBSD problems: newsworthy?] Message-ID: <20010120165654.F1262@puck.firepipe.net>
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--HeFlAV5LIbMFYYuh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [ public copy of my private response ] On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 01:30:38PM -0800, Gregory Sutter wrote: > This person seems to be having some trouble with the state of his > ports. [.. details omitted ..] This should probably be listed as a FAQ. When you update your ports tree, sometimes there are incompatible changes (like the PKGORIGIN support that was added to pkg_add(1) and recently to bsd.port.mk). There's no avoiding these; if we never did them, ports would never improve. So that's why we have these "compatibility packages" -- for people who don't want to upgrade their entire world. It usually contains newer pkg_* binaries with the support compiled in, having been done on older versions of the system. I would recommend trying to install the 41upgrade.tgz and any newer upgrade tarballs they can find. It will not hurt; more likely, it'll help them out. Anyway, I found 40upgrade.tgz using ftpsearch.ntnu.no: <1 5003-1> (16:44:40) [will@puck ~]% fetch ftp://ftp.the.net/dev/local2/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/Latest/40= upgrade.tgz Receiving 40upgrade.tgz (251216 bytes): 100% 251216 bytes transferred in 8.7 seconds (28.17 kBps) <1 5004-0> (16:46:14) [will@puck ~]% tar tvfz 40upgrade.tgz=20 -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 327 Oct 19 00:39 2000 +CONTENTS -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 71 Oct 19 00:39 2000 +COMMENT -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 151 Oct 19 00:39 2000 +DESC -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 102 Oct 19 00:39 2000 +INSTALL -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 135 Oct 19 00:39 2000 +REQUIRE -r--r--r-- root/wheel 6854 Oct 14 14:06 2000 etc/mtree/BSD.x11-4.dist -r--r--r-- root/wheel 557640 Oct 14 13:59 2000 usr/lib/libc.so.4 lrwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 Oct 19 00:33 2000 usr/lib/libxpg4.so -> libx= pg4.so.3 -r--r--r-- root/wheel 2280 Oct 14 13:59 2000 usr/lib/libxpg4.so.3 Obviously, this won't help take care of pkg_* interface changes. So, more is needed. Let us try 41upgrade.tgz: <1 5010-0> (16:48:34) [will@puck ~]% fetch ftp://ftp9.FreeBSD.org/pub/os/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/Latest/4= 1upgrade.tgz Receiving 41upgrade.tgz (68065 bytes): 100% 68065 bytes transferred in 0.1 seconds (734.91 kBps) <1 5011-0> (16:48:44) [will@puck ~]% tar tvfz 41upgrade.tgz -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 894 Jan 11 16:56 2001 +CONTENTS=20 -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 71 Jan 11 16:56 2001 +COMMENT -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 151 Jan 11 16:56 2001 +DESC -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 102 Jan 11 16:56 2001 +INSTALL -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 135 Jan 11 16:56 2001 +REQUIRE -r--r--r-- root/wheel 4819 Jan 8 14:58 2001 usr/share/man/man1/pkg_add= .1.gz -r--r--r-- root/wheel 5114 Jan 8 14:58 2001 usr/share/man/man1/pkg_cre= ate.1.gz -r--r--r-- root/wheel 2630 Jan 8 14:58 2001 usr/share/man/man1/pkg_del= ete.1.gz -r--r--r-- root/wheel 2269 Jan 8 14:58 2001 usr/share/man/man1/pkg_inf= o.1.gz -r--r--r-- root/wheel 3033 Jan 8 14:58 2001 usr/share/man/man1/pkg_ver= sion.1.gz -r--r--r-- root/wheel 6854 Jan 8 14:59 2001 etc/mtree/BSD.x11-4.dist -r-xr-xr-x root/wheel 38692 Jan 8 14:58 2001 usr/sbin/pkg_add -r-xr-xr-x root/wheel 29056 Jan 8 14:58 2001 usr/sbin/pkg_create -r-xr-xr-x root/wheel 26456 Jan 8 14:58 2001 usr/sbin/pkg_delete -r-xr-xr-x root/wheel 28772 Jan 8 14:58 2001 usr/sbin/pkg_info -r-xr-xr-x root/wheel 12383 Jan 8 14:58 2001 usr/sbin/pkg_version Obviously, you can't obtain all necessary changes by using just one package. Since 4.2-RELEASE has both pkg_* changes and the libc/libxpg update, users of 4.2-* don't need any compat packages. So, I suggest that you fetch the above packages and pkg_add them. This should fix your problem, but if not, just send me an email. You *will* need both xpg4/libc and pkg_* upgrades, since you are running 4.0-R. Hope this helps. The page you referred probably needs to be updated and rewritten to reflect the nature of these packages. I will handle that today; first though, time to eat dinner. :-) --=20 wca --HeFlAV5LIbMFYYuh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6agmkF47idPgWcsURAvehAJ9jBgZM5Qy06wKRr+pK9cL0UexTzwCfXMQ2 90xg6JcYXYrj/6TbPOXMVgw= =Eoby -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HeFlAV5LIbMFYYuh-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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