Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 00:37:30 +0100 From: Julio Merino <juli@merino.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portupgrade and XFree86-4 Message-ID: <20011226003730.A11520@klamath.local> In-Reply-To: <200112252304.fBPN49d08866@ptavv.es.net>; from oberman@es.net on Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 03:04:09PM -0800 References: <20011225121113.A33958@klamath.local> <200112252304.fBPN49d08866@ptavv.es.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 03:04:09PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > As I understand it, this will fix itself in the future. Well, I'll be waiting :) > > 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. If I install from a single package is because I'm too lazy to wait it to finish. I tried it sometime and each package needs lots of time to be built. At least, the single package only takes 5-6 hours... Oh! ;) > > 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. :-( Well, that would be ok if pkgdb would remember my choice. The problem is that anytime I install new X programs, I have to redo 'pkgdb -F' to fix their bad dependancies. Thanks anyway! > > 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 -- La ignorancia es la felicidad. Julio Merino (Slink) <juli@merino.net> [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8KQ25zz00ZOPKycwRAgoZAJ4iYqk64X+ktDLQOXbcfNRqA6tsiQCggRKT LTVo6scLCr0cOUWx6fw7E/8= =ljSF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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