From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 1 14:43:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 CACEE16A400 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 14:43:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.201]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6615743D53 for ; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 14:43:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id s9so572333wxc for ; Sat, 01 Apr 2006 06:43:49 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=PPOye0FU4QsGzJk4xAT0rwj7jLW9IH4iFhtrn3tLSqJDdu7ye3V7JvVy1T6kJsMulXguwAqrLyxclAqs73zzHFaVRDzMWgphEePjUATMRmZRJMmLbahVjJLZX6bHPhODZdv6ZQNtA14eaifTuQB3jV8k82RCLfZyzHmcuYujAiY= Received: by 10.70.129.20 with SMTP id b20mr802059wxd; Sat, 01 Apr 2006 06:43:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.74.14 with HTTP; Sat, 1 Apr 2006 06:43:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <80f4f2b20604010643r3b9e40a9j299e95062e5084e6@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2006 09:43:49 -0500 From: "Jim Stapleton" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Subject: issues with ports: conflicts X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 14:43:50 -0000 sorry, in my n00bness, I need to ask yet another question, a bit more serio= us. I have run into several instances where there are conflicts with ports. My current machine is an x86_64 machine, running FreeBSD 6.0 The first conflict issue that I run into a lot is that the applications want 32 bit x86 compiles (example: open office, wine). Is there any modification I can make to my make.conf file to fix this, do I have to run an i386/i686 cross compiler, or does it not even matter (the only reason for this would be that x86_64 BSD cannot run i386-i686 binaries, which I doubt would be an issue). The second conflict issue involves conflicting packages, such as xemacs and emacs. I figured in this particular case, since both have a lot of the same base, simply squashing that part of the conflict would be ok, and if now, I could always deinstall and start over. However, for something critical or unrelated packages, this is certainly not a good idea. Anyone have good suggestions? Originally I considered modifying make.conf to install to a different directory (such as /usr/local/secondary), so that the conflicting packages wouldn't overwrite any of the other package files, but I cannot find a variable to change to have that effect. I know /usr/local/secondary does not exist, I would create it with the bin, etc, lib, libexec, info, man, share and var subdirectories.