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Date:      Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:21:56 -0400
From:      "Antoine Beaupre (LMC)" <Antoine.Beaupre@ericsson.ca>
To:        co <co@hobbiton.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ports & package issues
Message-ID:  <3B4DCEA4.5040903@lmc.ericsson.se>
References:  <Pine.BSO.4.21.0107121115380.6520-100000@thorin>

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co wrote:

> After upgrading from 4.3-RELEASE to 4.3-STABLE I have been having some
> problems with ports and packages.  (Yes, I did upgrade my ports tree)  
> 
> First of all, when I use /stand/sysinstall to install any packages via
> ftp, all of the ftp sites give me an error that they "Can't find the
> `4.3-STABLE' distribution on this FTP server."  


Change the release name in the options screen to "4.3-RELEASE". There is 
no package building for -stable, since it's a moving target.


[snip]


> Third, I am trying to install some programs from ports (xmms, gnome,
> gnomecore), they all do quite well until they call for gnomecontrolcenter
> where they start compiling and then crap out due to some issue with
> imlib.  Perhaps I should have installed imlib though ports and not pkg_add
> -r ?


Perhaps you should send us the "crap" that you are talking about. :) Ie. 
  the error messages without which it's near impossible to debug the 
problem or see if there is one at all!

 

a.


-- 
Antoine Beaupré
Jambala TCM team
Ericsson Canada inc.
mailto:antoine.beaupre@ericsson.ca

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