From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 2 17:19:42 2003 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 D1E6137B401 for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 17:19:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from post-21.mail.nl.demon.net (post-21.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6A0843FBF for ; Sun, 2 Mar 2003 17:19:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cls@raggedclown.net) Received: from [212.238.197.102] (helo=mailhost.raggedclown.net) by post-21.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1) id 18pecE-0009YD-00 for FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 03 Mar 2003 01:19:39 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id EC340C7D0 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 02:19:37 +0100 (CET) Received: from willow.raggedclown.net (willow.raggedclown.intra [192.168.1.10]) by mailhost.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Mail Gateway [dawn]) with ESMTP id F114CE79 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 02:19:26 +0100 (CET) Received: by willow.raggedclown.net (Ragged Clown Host [willow], from userid 1009) id 31B142256B; Mon, 3 Mar 2003 02:19:27 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 02:19:27 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Ok, KDE/Help .. after my moans what now ? Message-ID: <20030303011927.GA4016@willow.raggedclown.intra> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS 0.3.12pre8 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, Ok so portupgrde did not work in installing the latest KDE. I cannot get KDE to run at all. I get errors about libintl being missing. Plus a mysterious and new requirement to tell make I have a Matrox 450 card. Plus the fact I cannot even re-intall KDE from the 4.7 ISO CD's. I get the highly useful message "Error -1". So, in my attempts to portupgrade, I get 0 points. Now, correct me if I am wrong. The tag for ports should always be ".", since the do not follow any kind of upgrade system like the release does. Why does portupgrade try to find 4.8-PRELEASE ports ? This is nonsense. From where is it getting this idea ? I promise,if someone is capable of explaining this to me, I will write a HOWTO. Because the whole frigging thing is just useless. That is my experience. You know perhaps, that hackers exploit holes in the protocols, the protocols do not define what to do with pathological messages. So people just made it up. Hence TCP/IP stack exploits. I draw a parellell here, because *none* of the documentation of ports explains what can go wrong. I regard portupgrade as a useless, time-wasting tool. If you have had luck with it. Then consider yourself blessed. -- Regards Cliff [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message