From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 27 3:54:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtp11.bellglobal.com (smtp11.bellglobal.com [204.101.251.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08F9514ECA for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 03:54:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vanderh@ecf.toronto.edu) Received: from localhost.nowhere ([206.172.130.88]) by smtp11.bellglobal.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA11775; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 06:57:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by localhost.nowhere (8.9.3/8.9.1) id GAA32821; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 06:54:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from tim) Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 06:54:32 -0400 From: Tim Vanderhoek To: Doug Cc: Sheldon Hearn , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: XFree 3.3.4 not on ftp.freebsd.org? Message-ID: <19990727065431.A32516@mad> References: <87016.933053385@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <379D4684.FE083FB@gorean.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95i In-Reply-To: <379D4684.FE083FB@gorean.org>; from Doug on Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 10:41:24PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 10:41:24PM -0700, Doug wrote: > > 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. You need to specify "port, eg. /usr/ports/x/y" or "package". I'd be surprised if you find any port that depends on /var/db/pkg/x. It used to be that packages would depend on X, but Sheldon reminded me (although I think it was accidental :-) that XFree86 was added to PACKAGE_IGNORE_DEPENDS to prevent this. Thus, only /usr/ports should depend on X. Few if any of these should be looking through ${PKG_DBDIR} for information. No packages should depend on X. -- 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