Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 00:18:11 +0000 From: Purrcat <purrcat@francine.edoropolis.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: pkg_info doesn't show XFree as "installed"..? Message-ID: <199911220018.AAA63414@francine.edoropolis.org>
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Hi, When I tried to get OpenGL support to compile (see www.freebsd.org/~3d), I stumbled across a problem (?) with pkg_info. The GLX makefile checks if there's a sufficient version of XFree86 installed. pkg_info didn't report XFree86 installed, in spite of the fact that I was running this program from an xterm which should probably mean I did install XFree ;) I've got FreeBSD 3.3 running and installed XFree86 from the installation menu (yeah I know; /real/ people get the source and compile it ;), so my guess is that sysinstall doesn't update the package database after untargzipping XFree86. More precise; I don't think sysinstall updates anything not installed via the "packages" section (as I (and probably many other people) installed XFree via the "Distributions" menu). Could anyone check if I'm mistaken..? I must admit I don't do everything through the sysinstall program and maybe this could have caused the package database to be not correct. Kind regards, -- Khamba Staring Maintainer of http://www.edoropolis.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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