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Date:      Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:15:12 +0200
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        forum@redpuppy.net
Cc:        "'Philip M . Gollucci'" <philip@ridecharge.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 6.2 AMD64 Ports Problem
Message-ID:  <46EED240.8010905@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070917184223.EBA8A13C442@mx1.freebsd.org>
References:  <20070917184223.EBA8A13C442@mx1.freebsd.org>

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forum@redpuppy.net wrote:
> Thats weird. When I updated using cvsup it updated all of the ports in my
> /usr/ports directory. I then ran "make install" on /usr/ports/x11/xorg, it then
> looks for dri-7.0.1,2.tbz, but that file isn't in
> amd64/packages-6.2-release/latest or amd64/packages-6.2-release/graphics/. It is
> only in the packages-7-release/graphics directory. 
> Why would xorg require a app that isn't in my current build? How do I get around
> it if I cant use the packages-7-release files?

A couple of points:

1) 'make install' doesn't try to install packages, it installs ports. 
In particular 'make install' doesn't fetch packages from the FTP site, 
these are added by pkg_add -r (and other commands).

2) Updated packages for 6.x are in the packages-6-stable/ directory.

Kris




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