From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 29 11: 0:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C915337B479 for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 11:00:57 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 12237 invoked by uid 100); 29 Oct 2000 19:00:56 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14844.29672.848678.465770@guru.mired.org> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 13:00:56 -0600 (CST) To: Chip Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports question In-Reply-To: <1807303@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chip writes: > Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that when installing a > port it would > also update any dependencies. For example, I want to install xfce > from the > port, but it failed apparently on esound. So I then went to > install esound > by itself by it failed with the message that libtool is out of > date. So I used pkg_delete on the old libtool and then installed > the new libtool port, and > now xfce installs just fine because esound also installs fine. > I thought stuff like this got updated by installing from the > port? This is the > first time this sort of problem has happened to me, and I have > installed many > of the ports just to see what some of these programs are. Well, "updating" a port isn't something the ports system deals with every well. It tries to *install* the dependencies if it can't find them. Libtool seems to break under these conditions, but it's the only thing I've run into that does. Other ports have simply installed multiple versions of the port.