Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 15:04:09 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Julio Merino <juli@merino.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portupgrade and XFree86-4 Message-ID: <200112252304.fBPN49d08866@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 25 Dec 2001 12:11:13 %2B0100." <20011225121113.A33958@klamath.local>
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> Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 12:11:13 +0100 > From: Julio Merino <juli@merino.net> > Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > > --LZvS9be/3tNcYl/X > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Hi all > > I've installed XFree86 4.1 from the x11/XFree86-4 port. I've started > playing with portupgrade, and wow! it is wonderful! :) > > 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? As I understand it, this will fix itself in the future. At the moment there are two ways to install XFree86: As a complete package with servers, clients, fonts, and libraries or as individual bits a pieces as is required by your installation. I believe the plan is to convert the XFree86-4 port to a container, similar to KDE and gnome which will then install all of the pieces. Once that takes place, installing XFree86-4 will result in the installation of XFree86-4-libraries (as well as several other ports/packages) and portupgrade will then be happy. Until then, selecting "all" to the question the first time pkgdb asks it is about the best you can do. :-( R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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