From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 25 15:34:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yuha.menta.net (yuha.menta.net [212.78.128.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCEBF37B419 for ; Tue, 25 Dec 2001 15:34:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from gibson.menta.net ([212.78.128.22]) by yuha.menta.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GOXAXT02.IU7 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 00:37:05 +0100 Received: from klamath.local ([62.57.120.44]) by gibson.menta.net (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GOXAN601.RC2 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 00:30:42 +0100 Received: (from juli@localhost) by klamath.local (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBPNbUv11960 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 00:37:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from juli) Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 00:37:30 +0100 From: Julio Merino To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: portupgrade and XFree86-4 Message-ID: <20011226003730.A11520@klamath.local> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20011225121113.A33958@klamath.local> <200112252304.fBPN49d08866@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200112252304.fBPN49d08866@ptavv.es.net>; from oberman@es.net on Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 03:04:09PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD klamath.local 4.5-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE 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 --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 03:04:09PM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: >=20 > As I understand it, this will fix itself in the future. Well, I'll be waiting :) >=20 > 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! ;) >=20 > 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=20 is that anytime I install new X programs, I have to redo 'pkgdb -F' to fix their bad dependancies. Thanks anyway! >=20 > 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 --=20 La ignorancia es la felicidad. Julio Merino (Slink) --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----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----- --82I3+IH0IqGh5yIs-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message