From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 27 10:32:51 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9BC515235 for ; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 10:32:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA02994; Tue, 27 Jul 1999 10:32:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Doug Cc: Sheldon Hearn , Tim Vanderhoek , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree 3.3.4 not on ftp.freebsd.org? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 26 Jul 1999 22:41:24 PDT." <379D4684.FE083FB@gorean.org> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 10:32:40 -0700 Message-ID: <2990.933096760@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > the parts that they need. However right after 3.2-R came out there was a > flurry of -questions mail about broken pkg dependencies because sysinstall > wasn't properly registering the X install. If the port depending on the Just to clear up a misconception; this isn't actually a sysinstall problem. This is a ports bug which Satoshi or somebody introduced when they added a dependency on the XFree86 port very prematurely. It was premature because no actual package exists for XFree86 yet and yet it's part of the dependancy chain now for a lot of packages, resulting in severe dysfunction unless it's removed by hand from the INDEX you use for package adding. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message