From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 18 12:32:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (mta5.snfc21.pbi.net [206.13.28.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CD1937B417 for ; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:32:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from helios.soupnazi.org ([64.168.21.18]) by mta5.snfc21.pbi.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.1 (built May 7 2001)) with ESMTP id <0GUS0084E3MEWA@mta5.snfc21.pbi.net> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:32:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jim@localhost) by helios.soupnazi.org (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g3IJWcbp013677; Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:32:38 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:32:38 -0700 From: Jim Mock Subject: Re: Question about the port for XFree86-4 In-reply-to: To: chip.wiegand@simrad.com Cc: "freebsd-questions @ freebsd. org" Reply-To: mij@soupnazi.org Message-id: <20020418193238.GD2443@helios.dub.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.0i References: 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 On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 at 09:55:03 -0700, chip.wiegand@simrad.com wrote: > owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG wrote on 04/17/2002 11:13:01 PM: > > On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 at 22:11:38 +0000, Chip Wiegand wrote: > > > I just set up a freebsd-4.5r box and then built xfree86-4 from the > > > ports. After I got it working I noticed pkg_info shows > > > xfree86-4.1.0_12,1, but looking at the ports on the freebsd web > > > site I see xfree86-4.2.0_1,1. No sign of 4.1.0_12,1. This is a new > > > install, not from cd but via ftp from the main freebsd site. Any > > > idea why it would install an older version than what the main site > > > shows as current? > > > > Because the ports tree you got is from 4.5-R, which had X 4.1.0. > > Thanks, guess I should run cvsup right after the new install then > install any and all apps. That's pretty much what you have to do if you want the latest ports tree and not the one from when the release was cut. - jim -- jim mock http://soupnazi.org/ | jim@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message