From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 24 15:49:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 009D316A420 for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:49:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A5D443D4C for ; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:49:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 838 invoked from network); 24 Feb 2006 15:49:13 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 24 Feb 2006 15:49:13 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id B16CA28425; Fri, 24 Feb 2006 10:49:12 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Chandan Haldar References: <43F96644.3070306@gmail.com> <43F99F17.1040407@gmail.com> <43FA1C37.1070607@childeric.freeserve.co.uk> <43FC66DD.1080408@gmail.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 24 Feb 2006 10:49:12 -0500 In-Reply-To: <43FC66DD.1080408@gmail.com> Message-ID: <44bqwwdafb.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 36 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports/packages confusion X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:49:16 -0000 Chandan Haldar writes: > Will someone please point me to an explanation for why the packages in > my install sets (that I chose at the time of installation of my > FreeBSD 6.0 Release), for example the X11R6 packages, do not show up > in the installed packages list (pkg_info or pkg_version)? That's not supposed to be the case. I certainly haven't seen it. > What will > happen to the installed Xorg set if I try to upgrade to a newer Xorg > rel through the ports/packages system? You may need to "force" it. (-f) > May be this would explain to me how (while trying to upgrade my > installed ports including gnome 2.10->2,12 upgrade) I managed to mess > up my working gnome 2.10 installation (done from the ISO disk images > at FreeBSD install time) so badly that I'm finding it impossible to > recover from that. Well, since you missed gnome_upgrade.sh the first time, you're left with quite a mess. Forcibly removing all the X-related packages, wiping out the detritis left /usr/X11, and reinstalling gnome would be my approach, but I don't mind leaving the machine alone for a long time while it grinds through the install. > The mysteries of pkgdb -F also needs way more > effort than I have been able to give so far. It shows stale > dependnecies right after portsnap fetch/extract even before pkg_info > shows any packages installed. Why?! Where can I read a precise > definition of 'stale dependency' as understood by the ports management > programs? That's just an unavoidable result of the fact that the ports database has no idea where your X installation came from.