Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 16:00:12 +0100 From: Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks@gmail.com> To: "Dr. Peter Voigt" <pvoigt@uos.de> Cc: FreeBSD <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Libiconv confusion on 10.0-RELEASE Message-ID: <532B027C.1040706@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140320153935.474c9d3d@tiger2008.drpetervoigt.private> References: <20140320153935.474c9d3d@tiger2008.drpetervoigt.private>
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Dr. Peter Voigt schreef: > I am running a fresh installation of 10.0-RELEASE since its > publication at the end of January this year. I have installed many > ports since then and all dependencies are OK. > > Yesterday I have stumbled across several posts in the forum making me > aware of a major change in handling port converters/libiconv: > 10.0-RELEASE ships with its own version of iconv so that there is no > need to install port converters/libiconv anymore. > > Some of these posts are: > https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=44658 > https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=44644 > https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=44659 > > Immediately I have studied /usr/ports/UPDATING and have found this > confirmed with the 20130904 entry telling me at the same time how to > remove converters/libiconv from the system. > > First I checked dependencies from converters/libiconv: > # pkg query %ro libiconv > devel/glib20 > sysutils/polkit > graphics/liblqr-1 > sysutils/upower > x11-toolkits/pango > astro/xplanet > editors/vim > ftp/proftpd > converters/php5-iconv > mail/claws-mail > lang/vala-vapigen > > Then I've issued as proposed: > # pkg query %ro libiconv >ports_to_update > # pkg delete -f libiconv > # cat ports_to_update | xargs portmaster > > All ports depending on converters/libiconv have been rebuilt but > converters/libiconv has been reinstalled with all the above ports > depending on it again: > # pkg info -o libiconv > libiconv-1.14_2 converters/libiconv > > At the same time /usr/ports/UPDATING tells me that some ports still > need converters/libiconv. At this point I am completely lost and need > some advice: > > 1.) Should I try to get rid of converters/libiconv with respect to the > above dependencies? > > 2.) If 1.) = "YES": How can I achieve it, because the proposed way > in /usr/ports/UPDATING does not work. > In one of the above links following is proposed: > portmaster -Raf > which should rebuild all ports. > Is there any switch needed in /etc/make.conf to convice ports of > not using converters/libiconv? > > 3.) Is there a list of known ports that definitely > need converters/libiconv? > > I do appreciate any advice on this topic. > > Regards, > Peter > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" As far as I know, there is some libiconv functionality missing in the base libiconv implementation. That is the reason some ports installed converters/libiconv from ports. regards Johan
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