From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 21 12:15:38 2005 Return-Path: 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 6361A16A4CE for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:15:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from asmtp03.eresmas.com (asmtp03.eresmas.com [62.81.235.143]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD08443D48 for ; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:15:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ea1abz@wanadoo.es) Received: from [192.168.108.54] (helo=mx01.eresmas.com) by asmtp03.eresmas.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1D3CTP-0006gM-Qk for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:15:35 +0100 Received: from [80.103.15.114] (helo=[80.103.15.114]) by mx01.eresmas.com with asmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1D3CTO-00087g-QR for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:15:35 +0100 Message-ID: <4219D0E9.4060907@wanadoo.es> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:15:37 +0100 From: Ramiro Aceves User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041124) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions-en X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) Subject: Questions about ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 12:15:38 -0000 Hello FreeBSD friends I have a question about ports. I have installed FreeBSD 5.3 on a AMD 400 MHz machine with 64 MB RAM, so it is not a fast machine for compiling big programs! :-). The problem I am going to tell you, happened to me several weeks ago into another slower machine (Pentium 75 in which there is no OS now), and I can not remember some details, so I am sorry if I am not too acurate. I suppose I will run into this problem again with the AMD machine so I would like to understand it better. 1- I installed mozilla 1.7.2-2,2 from the packages on the CDROM. 2- I cvsuped the ports collection. 3- I installed and compiled some programs from the updated ports collection. 4- Mozilla did not work anymore cause in needs atk-1.6.1. Mozilla in the package is 1.7.2_2,2 and depends on atk-1.6.1 If I install programs from the updated ports tree, atk-1.8.0 was installed for another port and atk-1.6.1 removed, but mozilla on the CDROM package wants atk-1.6.1. So, If I try to install again from the cdrom, it cant cause atk-1.8.0 is installed. Compilling mozilla in this slow machine is not reasonable, so: Can I download a more updated mozilla package acording to my updated ports collection? I have browsed pkg_add man pages and believe that the environment variables PACKAGESITE and PACKAGEROOT need to be set so that pkg_add can fetch more updated packages. Am I right? Where should they point to? I will use pkg_add only for big programs, and I can use the ports collectio to compile the little ones. Many thanks. Ramiro.