Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2014 14:44:00 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Reconfiguring a package and other questions. Message-ID: <441ttujrtb.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <8738eaochn.fsf@UlanBator.myhome.westell.com> (R. Clayton's message of "Wed, 09 Jul 2014 10:03:48 -0400") References: <8738eaochn.fsf@UlanBator.myhome.westell.com>
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rvclayton@acm.org (R. Clayton) writes:
> I'm running this
>
> $ uname -a
> FreeBSD BanjaLuka 10.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.0-RELEASE #0 r260789: Fri Jan 17
> 01:46:25 UTC 2014 root@snap.freebsd.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>
> $
>
> and I did this (via www.freebsd.org/handbook/x-install.html)
>
> # pkg install xorg
>
> to install X. It didn't work: xstart runs the default window manager, but the
> keyboard and mouse are frozen.
[I assume you meant "startx" instead of "xstart".]
See the Handbook's chapter on "The X Window System". Particularly the
parts on configuration and troubleshooting.
At a guess, configuring the mouse at the console before starting X may
be all you need. I do that by enabling moused in my rc.conf, but there
are easier ways. The installer might be able to handle this for you (you
can run bsdinstall(8) from the command line).
> 1: I usually install xorg from ports, and what I do in this case (which usually
> happens) is reconfigure xorg-server to disable hal. However, I don't see how
> packages can be reconfigured. the pkg-config man page seems to show how to
> reconfigure pkg itself, not individual packages. How it possible to
> reconfigure packages?
It isn't. A future feature called "subpackages" will do some of this,
but there are several intermediate steps that have to happen before that
occurs. For now, a package cannot have the (port's) options changed
after the package is built.
> 2: How do I undo the effects of installing a metapackage like xorg? Doing the
> obvious
>
> # whereis X
> X: /usr/local/bin/X
>
> # pkg remove xorg
> Deinstallation has been requested for the following 1 packages:
>
> xorg-7.7
>
> Proceed with deinstalling packages [y/N]: y
> [1/1] Deleting xorg-7.7... done
>
> # whereis X
> X: /usr/local/bin/X
>
> #
>
> doesn't do what I wanted ("pkg delete -R xorg" behaves as above).
What you want is "pkg autoremove".
See "man pkg-autoremove". [In fact, you will probably understand things
better if you go back and re-read "man 8 pkg" and "man 7 ports".]
> 3: I resorted to deleting xorg-server as a package and re-installing it as a
> port with appropriate configuration. This works, but raises the question of
> consistency between ports and packages. What is the relation between the
> software in ports and the software in packages? Have I just introduced an
> error (or potential for error) that will come back and bite me hard six months
> after I've forgotten what I've done?
You should be fine. To avoid losing the dependency data in the process,
you might want to try ports-mgmt/portmaster or ports-mgmt/portupgrade
for rebuilding any port.
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