Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2007 01:44:55 +0330 From: "Bahman M." <b.movaqar@adempiere.org> To: doug@safeport.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_add question Message-ID: <46DDD8DF.2070306@adempiere.org> In-Reply-To: <20070904165003.W15038@pemaquid.safeport.com> References: <20070904104305.L15038@pemaquid.safeport.com> <46DD8F9B.1090902@adempiere.org> <20070904165003.W15038@pemaquid.safeport.com>
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doug@safeport.com wrote: > On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Bahman M. wrote: > >> 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/.. I had >>> assumed this was the same directory and there was really one instance >>> of the ports tree per major release of FreeBSD. so I never >>> (knowingly) distinguished between -<n>-stable and -<n.x>-release. Is >>> there a difference. >>> >>> Is there a working kde package in -6-stable? >> I'm using 6.2-release and there is the x11/kde3 meta port. >> >> Bahman >> >> PS: I've upgraded ports on Aug 14th; but logically the kde3 metaport >> should have had been there before the upgrade. > > Thanks. Using ftp.safeport.com via a browser does indeed show > > .../packages-6.2-release/Latest/kde.tbz --> ../All/kde-3.5.4.tbz > .../packages-6-stable/Latest/ does not have a kde.tbz > .../packages-6-stable/All/ has kde-3.5.7.tbz > > Under these conditions, should I use PACKAGESITE = > ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-/Latest/ ?? > After setting PACKAGESITE running 'pkg_add -rvn kde' gives you the idea as it "does not actually install a package, just reports the steps that would be taken if it was" (quote from 'man 1 pkg_add'). HTH, Bahman
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