Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 19:09:58 +0200 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_add question Message-ID: <200709041909.58635.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <20070904104305.L15038@pemaquid.safeport.com> References: <20070904104305.L15038@pemaquid.safeport.com>
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On Tuesday 04 September 2007 18:32:15 doug@safeport.com wrote: > Over the weekend in trying to build xorg and kde from packages, none of the > various options for the package tree seemed to work. Plus the meta port for > kde was not available. > > If one goes to /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/kde (1) > /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/kde (2) > > there does not seems to be a kde meta port in (1). In (2) there is: > > kde-3.5.4.tbz -> ../All/kde-3.5.4.tbz > > In general all packages seem to be a symlink to ../All/.. That's how packages are stored. The real package in All/ and symlinks in the various categories that the package belongs to, plus a symlink in Latest, indicating the latest version of said package. There are packages for kde-3.5.7 in 6-stable. Kde-3.5.7 is the present version in ports. What exactly did you try and how did it fail? -- Mel People using reply to all on lists, must think I need 2 copies.
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