From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 5 14:02:19 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA09376 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 14:02:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA09308 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 14:02:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA00956 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 1999 13:59:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdCaQ949; Fri Feb 5 21:59:55 1999 Message-ID: <36BB69D6.62319AC4@whistle.com> Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 13:59:50 -0800 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Many packages unable to load. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I tried installing some packages recently from a 3.x SNAP but was unable to proceed easily due to a single problem. The reason is that many packages seem to have a prerequisite of me first loading the "XFree86.3.3.2" package.. firstly: there is no such package on the places where I was getting the packages. secondly: I just loaded the X distribution when I loaded the machine so why didn't it register that 'package file' into /var/db/pkg. The version of X loaded was actually down rev by 0.0.1, but that shouldn't matter, so the packages should be looking for a slightly less specific version. I don't want to reload a new X system every time I install a new package that uses X. I ended up being able to load by copying the var/db/pkg/gmake??? to /var/db/pkg/XFree86.3.3.2 and zeroing out anythign to do with gmake.. so it LOOKED as if I'd loaded XFree86.3.3.2 Is anyone lookign at these issues? what SHOULD I have done? julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message