Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:19:34 +0100 (CET) From: Mariusz Potocki <mariusz@ovitanutricia.com.pl> To: charon@freethought.org Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Evren Yurtesen <yurtesen@turkey.ispro.net.tr> Subject: Re: XFree86 and packages Message-ID: <XFMail.990128091934.mariusz@ovitanutricia.com.pl> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990127235704.00a2d140@mail>
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On 28-Jan-99 charon@freethought.org wrote: > At 02:01 AM 1/28/99 +0200, Evren Yurtesen wrote: >>I guess you may use; >> >> -f Force installation to proceed even if prerequisite packages are >> not installed or the requirements script fails. Although > pkg_add >> will still try to find and auto-install missing prerequisite >> packages, a failure to find one will not be fatal. >> >>I think that you will still be able to use packages without any problem >>even though you see some error messages. >> >> >>On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 charon@freethought.org wrote: >> >>> The packages I'm trying to install require XFree86, but don't recognize >>> that I have it on my system because I didn't install it via port (I >>> downloaded it from www.XFree86.org and followed their directions). What do >>> I need to do to make window managers, etc. recognize that I have X > installed? > > When I force a pkg_add, I get a message that dependency registration is > incomplete. Does this cause a problem? The fact that XFree86 _isn't_ a > package makes me wonder why the system is looking for it to be registered > in /var/db/pkg in the first place. I can't install XFree via port because > my laptop (the FreeBSD machine) isn't networked... any suggestions? > I already wrote about it on the list, but: cd /var/db/pkg mkdir XFree86-3.3.2 ln -s XFree86-3.3.2 XFree86-3.3.3 It create a fake records, where pkg_add will store dependencies. -- Mariusz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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