From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 14 19:18:43 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31CF016A41F for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:18:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from smtp.owt.com (smtp.owt.com [204.118.6.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 207EC43D76 for ; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:18:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by smtp.owt.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id jAEJIWBJ032380; Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:18:33 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 11:18:36 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <4378C7C0.8080308@dial.pipex.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511141118.36743.kstewart@owt.com> Cc: Jeppe Larsen Subject: Re: xterm conflicts with xorg-clients X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:18:43 -0000 On Monday 14 November 2005 09:48 am, Jeppe Larsen wrote: > On Mon, 14 Nov 2005 17:22:08 +0000, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > > Don't delete any of those dependencies! If you do then you will > > probably have to re-install those packages to get the dependencies > > back. > > > > I believe upgrading xorg-clients and then xterm should work, if > > only that damn xorg-clients port would compile! I found this link > > late last night which might help, but haven't tried it myself yet. > > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-i386/2005-January/002040 > >.html > > > > If you don't want to do all that then you'll have to get the xterm > > port back to the state it was before cvsup. Either get it from a > > backup or try portdowngrade. Deleting xterm port *was* a bad idea, > > sorry. If you had left it alone then you'd be left with working > > xorg-client and xterm installed and could either chase the fix > > above at your leisure or wait for someone to fix it officially. > > > > Hope that helps, > > > > --Alex > > With portdowngrade i managed to install 206 again, so that might be > settled. It seems that the problem with xorg-client is another > matter, but this error in the link is from january, and the upgrade > to 6.8.2_1 is from yesterday?? I found that if I deleted xorg-clients and then xterm, I could reinstall xterm and then xorg-clients. I did this from a KDE session. After all of this was done, I ran pkgdb -F and it didn't have any problem connecting to xterm-206_1. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html