Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:59:09 +0800 From: Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile) Message-ID: <1140667149.4762.30.camel@neuromancer.home.net> In-Reply-To: <200602222136.22120.donaldjoneill@gmail.com> References: <1140659905.1984.20.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <200602222032.45039.donaldjoneill@gmail.com> <1140663551.4762.5.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <200602222136.22120.donaldjoneill@gmail.com>
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On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:36 -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > On Wednesday 22 February 2006 20:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > what about the dependency then? Ignore it? What if there are "files" > > needed by xorg-clients? eg: libXX.so.Y and which is not present in > > the new xterm? > > > Since you want to replace it with a newer version, why are you worried > about the dependencies. The newer version will take care of that. Of > course, if you delete xterm and don't replace it, then you will have to > handle the dependencies. So, I do pkg_del -f xterm and then a pkg_add -vr xterm-206_1 and it will upgrade xorg-clients if needed? If yes, then Good. > > > > What you are trying to do is update using downloaded packages and > > > that is going to work for you. You need to upgrade those packages > > > using the ports system. > > > > IS or is not? > > Is or is not what? I don't understand what you're asking here. You need > to use more than a 4 word question, of which 2 of the words are the > same. It tends to be confusing. Sorry but You're confusing me too. Read your sentence "update using downloaded packages and that is (?NOT?) going to work for you" > > > > > Again, I don't want to compile it. I want the binary package. It's > > available on the mirrors. > > > No It's not. The port is available on the mirrors. So compile it, or > leave the old one in place. lftp ftp.tw.frebsd.org lftp ftp.tw.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/x11 ls -l | grep xterm lrwxr-xr-x Nov 28 09:12 xterm-206_1.tbz -> ../All/xterm-206_1.tbz get xterm-206_1.tbz quit tar -v -t -f xterm-206_1.tar -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 1560 2006-02-07 15:20:18 +CONTENTS -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 42 2006-02-07 15:20:18 +COMMENT -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 479 2006-02-07 15:20:18 +DESC -r--r--r-- root/wheel 8654 2006-02-07 15:20:18 +MTREE_DIRS -r--r--r-- root/wheel 1313 2006-02-07 15:19:55 man/man1/resize.1.gz -r--r--r-- root/wheel 41772 2006-02-07 15:19:55 man/man1/xterm.1.gz -rwxr-xr-x root/wheel 10104 2006-02-07 15:19:54 bin/resize -rwxr-xr-x root/wheel 2118 2006-02-07 15:19:54 bin/uxterm -rws--x--x root/wheel 252996 2006-02-07 15:19:54 bin/xterm -r--r--r-- root/wheel 1527 2006-02-07 15:19:55 lib/X11/app-defaults/UXTerm -r--r--r-- root/wheel 6551 2006-02-07 15:19:55 lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm -r--r--r-- root/wheel 4232 2006-02-07 15:19:55 lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color > > I'm proficient with the CLI, and being a long time Linux person, I'm > > sad to say that FreeBSD ports/packages is really confusing to me. > > > > Use Windows instead. All that takes is money. Why the sarcasm? > > > Available packages are not as up to date as the ports system is. > > > > Again, the package _is_ available and I've verified it. > > Thanks > > > > I'm sorry. You've verified the port was available. The package is not. I > just checked. See above. I too do my own verification before shooting emails out to mail lists > > At this point, I'm going to close my ears eyes to you. You've been given > advice by me and others and I thank you and them for it. Thanks again. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:48:03 up 1 day, 13:23, 4 users, load average: 1.14, 0.77, 0.67
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