From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 17 03:30:08 2005 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 E866616A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 03:30:08 +0000 (GMT) Received: from vms044pub.verizon.net (vms044pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.44]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD56143D3F for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2005 03:30:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ringworm01@gmail.com) Received: from ringworm.mechee.com ([4.27.46.32])0.04 <0IDH001B88E7RVU1@vms044.mailsrvcs.net> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 21:30:08 -0600 (CST) Received: by ringworm.mechee.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 9FAAE2CE740; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:30:06 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 19:30:04 -0800 From: "Michael C. Shultz" In-reply-to: <20050316222527.3c9bb015.lists@interpool.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-id: <200503161930.04755.ringworm01@gmail.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline References: <20050316222527.3c9bb015.lists@interpool.ca> User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 Subject: Re: Ports and Packages: Updating problems 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, 17 Mar 2005 03:30:09 -0000 On Wednesday 16 March 2005 07:25 pm, Gerry Freymann wrote: > I just upgraded from FreeBSD 4.9R to 4.11R (cvsup'd sources and > ports, buildworld, buildkernel, etc). > > Then I went to work on upgrading my ports. Portupgrade and some > manual intervention did a fairly decent job. > > I used the "ports" which compiled mostly everything (Xfree-4 went > fine too) but it never compiles KDE so I fall-back to using > "packages" for those. > > But I'm confused as to why the packages seem to be older versions > than what's in the ports? A fair bit of the packages required for KDE > spit out notices they were expecting version B of a dependency but I > have version A (the latest) > > I can't update via ports: > > arts-1.3.2,1 > gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0 > kdemultimedia-mpeglib_artsplug-3.3.2 > koffice-1.3.5_1,1 > > and if I try to install via package, I get the versions above, which > are now considered "old" and I'm being told they need to be updated > when I run pkg_version > > I get varying errors when trying to compile via ports, of which > something about libjpeg seems to be common. > > Do I need to cvsup again and try the above 4 programs again? or do I > need to capture the text where they bomb and submit to the ports' > responsible person? > > Thanks... > -gerry Gerry, give portmanager a try. It should straighten out the dependencies for you and rebuild everthing via ports. This is all you need do: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanger make install clean rehash portmanager -u -Mike