From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 26 18:11: 4 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp13.bellglobal.com (smtp13.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D89C115177 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 18:10:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vanderh@ecf.toronto.edu) Received: from localhost.nowhere (ppp6493.on.bellglobal.com [206.172.208.85]) by smtp13.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA08653; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 21:11:03 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by localhost.nowhere (8.9.3/8.9.1) id VAA45724; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 21:09:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 21:09:50 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Doug Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree 3.3.4 not on ftp.freebsd.org? Message-ID: <19990726210950.A45538@mad> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: ; from Doug on Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 05:29:20PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 05:29:20PM -0700, Doug wrote: > > and installed it the "hard" way, however I know I'm going to run into > trouble down the road when ports start looking for the X stuff in > /var/db/pkg. I seem to remember that you can get away with a simple "mkdir /var/db/pkg/xxx" to fake it. Alternatively, $ cd /usr/ports/x11/XFree86 ; make generate-plist fake-pkg should be a little more correct. -- This is my .signature which gets appended to the end of my messages. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message