From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 26 22:42:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dt011n65.san.rr.com (dt011n65.san.rr.com [204.210.13.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE8E814FA4 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:42:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt011n65.san.rr.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA25371; Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:41:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <379D4684.FE083FB@gorean.org> Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:41:24 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Tim Vanderhoek , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree 3.3.4 not on ftp.freebsd.org? References: <87016.933053385@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 21:09:50 -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote: > > > I seem to remember that you can get away with a simple "mkdir > > /var/db/pkg/xxx" to fake it. > > Can you think of any ports that test for the existance of XFree86 using > the package system? They use USE_X_PREFIX or USE_X_LIB, both of which > test for libX11, no? Well, in an ideal world the ports that need parts of X would only test for the parts that they need. However right after 3.2-R came out there was a flurry of -questions mail about broken pkg dependencies because sysinstall wasn't properly registering the X install. If the port depending on the existence of /var/db/pkg/X* is actually an error I'll report what I find to the -ports list. Thanks, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message