Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2014 14:35:01 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: oddball syslog entries .... Message-ID: <543591E5.4030400@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <3680979.7idvKWMyJF@curlew.lan> References: <5434A8F7.1090507@hiwaay.net> <CADy1Ce4pSdgzH2z%2B=Oq4DgrRhawTf_YQCi-Q5GKwAmAoJb2x-Q@mail.gmail.com> <54353D4C.7080403@hiwaay.net> <3680979.7idvKWMyJF@curlew.lan>
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On 10/08/14 13:52, Mike Clarke wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 Oct 2014 08:34:04 William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>
>> [root@kabini1, /etc, 8:21:10am] 699 % pkg install -y wireshark
>> tcpdump
> <snip>
>
>> New packages to be INSTALLED:
>> wireshark: 1.12.1 [FreeBSD]
>> linux-f10-xorg-libs: 7.4_1 [FreeBSD]
> <snip>
>
>> Installed packages to be REMOVED:
>> linux_base-c6-6.5_1
> One of the dangers of using the "-y" option. There's not much point
> using this option when running interactively because it denies you the
> option of bailing out if it wants to do unexpected things.
>
> Without the "-y" option if extra packages need to be installed they
> will be listed and you will be asked to confirm - it's an all or
> nothing question so you only have to type "y" or "n" once no matter
> how many packages are involved.
>
> But I'm puzzled why it wanted to install the linux packages anyway
> neither wireshark nor tcpdump depend on them. Here's the output from a
> PC which didn't have any linux packages on it
>
> =====================================================================
> root@fbsd10:~ # pkg install -n wireshark tcpdump
> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
> FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
> Updating FreeBSD_new_xorg repository catalogue...
> FreeBSD_new_xorg repository is up-to-date.
> All repositories are up-to-date.
> The following 9 packages will be affected (of 0 checked):
>
> New packages to be INSTALLED:
> wireshark: 1.12.1 [FreeBSD]
> gtk3: 3.8.8_1 [FreeBSD]
> colord: 1.0.1_3 [FreeBSD]
> at-spi2-atk: 2.8.0_1 [FreeBSD]
> at-spi2-core: 2.8.0_1 [FreeBSD]
> GeoIP: 1.6.2_1 [FreeBSD]
> libsmi: 0.4.8_1 [FreeBSD]
> adns: 1.4_2 [FreeBSD]
> tcpdump: 4.5.1 [FreeBSD]
>
> The process will require 145 MB more space.
> 22 MB to be downloaded.
> =====================================================================
>
> BTW, as others have said tcpdump is part of the base system and you
> didn't need to install the port which offers additional bleeding-edge
> features. You can safely delete the tcpdump package.
>
Your point on the -y option is well taken, I wasn't expecting any
trouble, & sometimes I type that command in & walk off to do something
else while pkg does its thing; w/o a -y, it waits until I'm back to
proceed. This may be a recurrence of the problem I have been posting
about, which boils down to the FBSD pkg system is mid-stream changing
over from linux-f10 to linux-c6, & repos are still in a state of flux
.... I cleaned up the linux compatibility stuff & seem to be back in the
saddle again .... Thx.
--
William A. Mahaffey III
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