Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 22:07:09 -0500 From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> Cc: Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>, asami@cs.berkeley.edu, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: geomview Message-ID: <20000120220709.G42787@jade.chc-chimes.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001201902550.69639-100000@hub.freebsd.org>; from kris@hub.freebsd.org on Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 07:04:03PM -0800 References: <200001210249.SAA22857@windsor.research.att.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001201902550.69639-100000@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 07:04:03PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Hm, I wasn't completely thinking about the fact that geomview's > > dependencies would need to be installed too (Motif/lesstif, xforms, > > mesa3, tk82). tk82 seems to be the only one installed on beast; > > is it reasonable to install the others or is this the kind of place > > where this kind of shared resource breaks down? > > You'd have to talk to Jordan about getting root access, probably..although > I wonder if you could install the ports as a regular user by creative > exploitation of PREFIX and LOCALBASE and PATH. I have root on beast and once someone fixes the date so krb5 doesn't bitch and reject my ksu request, I will install whatever you (not just fenner, any committers who want to test..) need. I realize that this isn't exactly a perfect solution, but I will try and get it done quickly. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect Computer Horizons Corp - CVM e-mail: billf@chc-chimes.com / billf@FreeBSD.org Office: 800-252-2421 x128 / Cell: 248-761-7272 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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