From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 25 10:34:16 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net (albatross.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65F7637B416 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2001 10:34:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdn-ar-008dcwashp032.dialsprint.net ([63.178.91.144] helo=moo.holy.cow) by albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16IwOo-0003od-00; Tue, 25 Dec 2001 10:34:03 -0800 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 28F5D50E29; Tue, 25 Dec 2001 13:35:56 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 13:35:56 -0500 From: parv To: Julio Merino Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade and XFree86-4 Message-ID: <20011225133556.A31096@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Julio Merino , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20011225121113.A33958@klamath.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011225121113.A33958@klamath.local>; from juli@merino.net on Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 12:11:13PM +0100 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 in message <20011225121113.A33958@klamath.local>, wrote Julio Merino thusly... > > But there is something that annoys me. Everytime I do a portinstall > of a port that depends on X, it registers dependancies to imake and > XFree86-4-libraries. Then, I've to run 'pkgdb -F' to correct these > dependancies by hand, and I make them to point to XFree86-4. > > Is it there any way to do this automagically? i also have installed the XFree86-4 port. i "solved" the same problem by making symlinks from XFree86-4 to -libraries and imake and anything else that would require XFree86-*. so, now if/when i run 'pkgdb -F', i am asked if i want to "remove any of them" due to "duplicate origin" ... to which i say "no". other solution my be to install individual XFree86 ports. there was a thread on some list about creation of XFree86-4 metaport (which would install individual pieces instead of one big port as it is now). - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message