From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 16 3:34: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corp.au.triax.com (slwag2p15.ozemail.com.au [203.108.157.63]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DE9515394 for ; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 03:33:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@corp.au.triax.com) Received: (from jim@localhost) by corp.au.triax.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA21699; Fri, 16 Apr 1999 20:31:22 +1000 (EST) Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 20:31:21 +1000 From: Jim Mock To: Denis DeLaRoca Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Warning: XFree86-3.3.3.1 is required but not found" Message-ID: <19990416203121.A21662@corp.au.triax.com> Reply-To: jim@corp.au.triax.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 at 01:47:42 -0700, Denis DeLaRoca wrote: > On a FreeBSD system, every time I install an X application from the > ports collection, sysinstall issues warnings like > > Warning: XFree86-3.3.3.1 is a required package but wasn't found. > > doesn't FBSD 3.1 come with X 3.3.3.1 already? Where's sysinstall > looking at for the version of X? > This happens because XFree86 doesn't register itself in /var/db/pkg as a package. All you need to do to fix it is: cd /var/db/pkg mkdir XFree86-3.3.3.1 -- Jim Mock System Administrator jim@corp.au.triax.com ,-._|\ FreeBSD work: Triax Internet Services http://www.triax.com/ / \ The personal: http://www.triax.com/~jim/ \_,--._/ Power To The FreeBSD 'zine http://www.freebsdzine.org/ v Serve! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message