From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 8 14:45:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (sirius-giga.rz.uni-ulm.de [134.60.246.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 852D837B423 for ; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 14:45:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from siegbert.baude@gmx.de) Received: from gmx.de (lilith.wohnheim.uni-ulm.de [134.60.106.64]) by mail.rz.uni-ulm.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA05319; Sun, 8 Apr 2001 23:45:47 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <3AD0DC06.917D8AE@gmx.de> Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2001 23:45:42 +0200 From: Siegbert Baude X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: de, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: joup@bigfoot.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [freebsd-questions] using ports w/ XFree86 4.0.2 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG joup@bigfoot.com wrote: > > I'm trying to install the ports version of KDE2.1, and I'm running a > source-compiled version of XF86 4.0.2. The port requires 3.3.6, and I'd > rather not have both versions installed. What's the easiest way to keep > my current X setup and still use the port? > I've also found that my XFree86 installation (4.0.2) is not listed in > pkg_info, which could likely be the reason that 'make build' for kde2 > tries to build XFree86-3.3.6_8. So, > 1. Is there any way to add an existing compile to the pkg database? > 2. Would that new package be recognized and accepted by the kde2 port? Did you try to create the directory /var/db/pkg/XFree86-4.0.2/ ? Maybe with the contents: bash-2.04$ cd /var/db/pkg/XFree86-4.0.2/ bash-2.04$ ls +COMMENT +CONTENTS +DESC +DISPLAY bash-2.04$ But I don't know, if make actually looks into these files. Hth Siegbert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message