From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 23 14:40:46 2004 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 2070316A4CE for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:40:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from TheWorld.com (pcls2.std.com [192.74.137.142]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E87643D6D for ; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 14:40:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from franl@world.std.com) Received: from localhost.my.domain.theworld.com (206-15-137-253.dialup.ziplink.net [206.15.137.253]) by TheWorld.com (8.12.8p1/8.12.8) with ESMTP id i0NMNZuZ005814; Fri, 23 Jan 2004 17:23:38 -0500 To: Kris Kennaway Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 17:12:36 -0500 References: <86smi61q35.fsf@world.std.com> <20040123210726.GA90817@xor.obsecurity.org> From: Francis Litterio X-Random-Quote: The basis for optimism is sheer terror. -- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) In-Reply-To: <20040123210726.GA90817@xor.obsecurity.org> (Kris Kennaway's message of "Fri, 23 Jan 2004 13:07:26 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) Message-ID: <86ektq2tjx.fsf@world.std.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Package from the packages-5.1-release directory won't install on a 5.1 system 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: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 22:40:46 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 01:22:38PM -0500, Francis Litterio wrote: >> I have a stock 5.1 release system, but when I try to install the package >> amsn-0.71_1.tbz, which I downloaded from >> >> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.1-release/All/amsn-0.71_1.tbz >> >> pkg_add says it needs version "tcl-8.4.3,1" of tcl but my 5.1 system has >> tcl version "8.3.5_2" installed. I have not changed my tcl installation >> since I installed 5.1, so that's the tcl that comes with 5.1. > > That's the version of tcl 8.3 that comes with 5.1. The version of tcl > 8.4 that comes with 5.1 is 8.4.3,1. They are different packages. Thanks for replying. In what sense does tcl 8.4 "come with 5.1" if it is not installed when I install _everything_ from the 5.1 install CD? This is what confuses me: How can tcl 8.4.3,1 be a 5.1 package if it depends on packages that are not installed with the 5.1 release? Sure, any package can be a "5.1 package" as long as I upgrade enough other packages. Aren't packages bound to a given base system version precisely to avoid this kind of "upgrade creep"? -- Francis Litterio franl@world.std.com http://world.std.com/~franl/ GPG and PGP public keys available on keyservers.