From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 12 11: 3:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.crackula.com (adsl-64-169-68-38.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.169.68.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B17337B405 for ; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 11:03:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from monkey@localhost) by mail.crackula.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA22338; Wed, 12 Jun 2002 11:00:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 11:00:41 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger To: "S. Roberts" Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: portupgrade on xscreensaver failing over the last week now Message-ID: <20020612110041.B14026@crackula.com> References: <1023841533.325.5.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> <20020611175632.A22658@crackula.com> <1023866003.325.13.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> <20020612003315.A10565@crackula.com> <1023880978.325.26.camel@Demon.Strobe.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: MarioMail Super Nintendo w/ 2 controllers In-Reply-To: <1023880978.325.26.camel@Demon.Strobe.org>; from sroberts@dsl.pipex.com on Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 12:22:56PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG can't remove one without whacking the other. you'll have to # pkg_deinstall -v xscreensaver-\* which will remove both. then, go install the xscreensaver-4.05 port again. as for the text box that pops up: pkgconfig tells the build process which libraries and header files are needed to build against a certain program. the problem is that pkgconfig is returning something incorrect about library locations. so the options are (1) remove pkconfig, the offending program (2) repair the damage done by pkgconfig. the messagebox tells you to do (1). i told you how to do (2). w0rd. -Adam S. Roberts took 26K on Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 12:22:56PM +0100 to say: > However, running pkg_version -v after installing xscreensaver-4.05 as > per your instructions, returned *both* xscreensaver-4.05 and > xscreensaver-gnome-4.02 in the list: > # pkg_version -v > xscreensaver-4.05 = up-to-date with port > xscreensaver-gnome-4.02 < needs updating (port has 4.05) > # > Is it possible to safely remove xscreensaver-gnome-4.02 from the ports > database: > > I'm concerned about the fact that the "make clean configure" step in > your instructions brought up a text message box indicating that "there a > conflict exists with pkgconfig and that its being currently worked on" -- "I am disrespectful to dirt! Can you see I am serious!" -Mr. Sparkle Adam Weinberger monkey@crackula.com http://www.crackula.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message