From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 25 16:12:14 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7074D16A4B3 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:12:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 927E943F3F for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:12:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsduser@comcast.net) Received: from comcast.net (12-225-143-41.client.attbi.com[12.225.143.41]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with SMTP id <200309252312120120001ih1e> (Authid: animotions); Thu, 25 Sep 2003 23:12:12 +0000 Message-ID: <3F737666.6040603@comcast.net> Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 16:12:38 -0700 From: K Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kent Stewart References: <00df01c38185$2255aee0$5864a8c0@patience> <200309222126.41170.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <200309222126.41170.kstewart@owt.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FREEBSD Subject: Re: Ports woes. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2003 23:12:14 -0000 Kent Stewart wrote: > On Monday 22 September 2003 08:45 pm, cuddlesomebunny wrote: > >>Could anybody explain to me what is up with ports? >> >>I am using FreeBSD 5.x-p2 and I am using ports and am having one hell >>of a time installing things. >> >>Here's what is happeng. >> >>I go to install ports and if it needs to get a dependency it goes and >>fetches it and becomes the usual compile process. Except that the >>dependency might already be installed with the exact version required >>and so most of the time the ports error out telling me I need to make >>deinstall on some dependency then make reinstall on it. >> >>And don't even get me started on installing Apache. I tried >>installing mod_php4 but before hand installed apache+ssl and so then >>mod_php4 doesn't even see that apache is already installed and then >>fetches the version it wants thus blowing out the apache+ssl and I >>have to then reinstall that package to get ssl and apache. >> >>If I do things with /stand/sysinstall it errors out on a dependency >>if it is already installed instead of ignoring the fact that it is >>already there and errors out. This particular behavour started around >>4.8 or so. Maybe earlier but I don't seem to recall exactly when this >>started to happen. >> >>I tried using the portupgrade stuffs but that just seems to make >>things worse overall. >> >>Anybody got any hints as to why it seems ports is having these sorts >>of problems? > > > I don't have any idea what you problem is; however, there is an ongoing > discussion on -current with people having port problems. What I > remember is that the freeze has them locked and they can't patch the > ports to build and install on -current until the port freeze is over. > You might be caught by this problem or something entirely different. > > Kent > Mmmmm, could be. But would that explain why /stand/sysinstall can't install something just because a given dependency exists already on the system? CS. Bunny.