Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 11:13:02 -0800 From: "dc" <dccwest@hotmail.com> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: incompatability between PowerPack 6/01 TOOLKIT and 9/01 OS disks Message-ID: <OE42w6kj2k32z2xrcbJ00012b0b@hotmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Thank you for your response! It just seems as though no matter how fast the moving targets, it still wouldn't be an issue if this were all just one CD set or at least two sets always snapped at the same time... After all, since they tend to go into the same PowerPack, it seems like all the Packages ought to at least have the same date as the Release and all the Distfiles ought to at least match the Release's ports collection, however outdated it all at least harmoniously already becomes by the time the PowerPack even hits the shelves!!! Dennis Ports are upgraded constantly; for fast-moving targets like GNOME there will often be several software releases in a week. As for packages, from time to time the port is unbuildable, due to a mistake in the port or bugs in the software. Kris ----- Original Message ----- From: dc To: questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 3:33 PM Subject: incompatability between PowerPack 6/01 TOOLKIT and 9/01 OS disks Greetings; Wondering if I maybe just missed the point somewhere or whether there really are packages and distfiles on the June, 2001 TOOLKIT disks that are incompatible with the September, 2001 OS disks, even though they're all included in the same FreeBSD PowerPack 4.4... An example is the gedit program that apparently couldn't build as a port from the TOOLKIT disks because of the already obsolete distfile, but that also didn't seem to exist as a package on any of the OS disks! Of course it's on one of the "TOOLKIT Packages" disks, but that would apparently create conflicting dependencies such as Gnome 1.2 along side the already installed Gnome 1.4!!! Thank you and have a great day, [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT size=2> <P>Thank you for your response! It just seems as though no matter how fast the moving targets, it still wouldn't be an issue if this were all just one CD set or at least two sets always snapped at the same time... After all, since they tend to go into the same PowerPack, it seems like all the Packages ought to at least have the same date as the Release and all the Distfiles ought to at least match the Release's ports collection, however outdated it all at least harmoniously already becomes by the time the PowerPack even hits the shelves!!!</P> <P>Dennis</P> <P> </P> <P> </P> <P>Ports are upgraded constantly; for fast-moving targets like GNOME</P> <P>there will often be several software releases in a week. As for</P> <P>packages, from time to time the port is unbuildable, due to a mistake</P> <P>in the port or bugs in the software.</P> <P>Kris</P> <P> </P> <P> </P></FONT></FONT></DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dccwest@hotmail.com href="mailto:dccwest@hotmail.com">dc</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=questions@freebsd.org href="mailto:questions@freebsd.org">questions@freebsd.org</A> </DIV> <DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, January 10, 2002 3:33 PM</DIV> <DIV><B>Subject:</B> incompatability between PowerPack 6/01 TOOLKIT and 9/01 OS disks</DIV></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT><BR></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Greetings;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wondering if I maybe just missed the point somewhere or whether there really are packages and distfiles on the June, 2001 TOOLKIT disks that are incompatible with the September, 2001 OS disks, even though they're all included in the same FreeBSD PowerPack 4.4...</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>An example is the gedit program that apparently couldn't build as a port from the TOOLKIT disks because of the already obsolete distfile, but that also didn't seem to exist as a package on any of the OS disks! Of course it's on one of the "TOOLKIT Packages" disks, but that would apparently create conflicting dependencies such as Gnome 1.2 along side the already installed Gnome 1.4!!!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you and have a great day,</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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