From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 22 20:45:49 2003 Return-Path: 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 15F9E16A4B3 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:45:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4490644005 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:45:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsduser@comcast.net) Received: from patience (12-225-143-41.client.attbi.com[12.225.143.41]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with SMTP id <2003092303454701500gj3h0e>; Tue, 23 Sep 2003 03:45:47 +0000 Message-ID: <00df01c38185$2255aee0$5864a8c0@patience> From: "cuddlesomebunny" To: "FREEBSD" Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 20:45:29 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: Ports woes. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 03:45:49 -0000 Could anybody explain to me what is up with ports?=20 I am using FreeBSD 5.x-p2 and I am using ports and am having one hell of = a time installing things.=20 Here's what is happeng.=20 I go to install ports and if it needs to get a dependency it goes and = fetches it and becomes the usual compile process. Except that the = dependency might already be installed with the exact version required = and so most of the time the ports error out telling me I need to make = deinstall on some dependency then make reinstall on it.=20 And don't even get me started on installing Apache. I tried installing = mod_php4 but before hand installed apache+ssl and so then mod_php4 = doesn't even see that apache is already installed and then fetches the = version it wants thus blowing out the apache+ssl and I have to then = reinstall that package to get ssl and apache.=20 If I do things with /stand/sysinstall it errors out on a dependency if = it is already installed instead of ignoring the fact that it is already = there and errors out. This particular behavour started around 4.8 or so. = Maybe earlier but I don't seem to recall exactly when this started to = happen.=20 I tried using the portupgrade stuffs but that just seems to make things = worse overall.=20 Anybody got any hints as to why it seems ports is having these sorts of = problems?