From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 13 23:45:07 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (unknown [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D9BF106566C for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:45:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erichfreebsdlist@ovitrap.com) Received: from alogreentechnologies.com (alogreentechnologies.com [67.212.226.44]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3EFE8FC12 for ; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:45:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from x220.ovitrap.com ([122.129.201.75]) (authenticated bits=0) by alogreentechnologies.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id q5DNj3lF028948; Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:45:04 -0600 From: Erich To: Jason Hellenthal Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 06:44:53 +0700 Message-ID: <1443905.ZHsCDgXC9N@x220.ovitrap.com> User-Agent: KMail/4.8.3 (Linux/3.3.7-1.fc16.x86_64; KDE/4.8.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20120613042016.GA3206@DataIX.net> References: <29122915.NDnaqcIOs3@x220.ovitrap.com> <20120613042016.GA3206@DataIX.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why are you NOT using FreeBSD --> an example and a solution X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 23:45:07 -0000 Hi, On 13 June 2012 0:20:16 Jason Hellenthal wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 09:53:04AM +0700, Erich wrote: > > Hi, > > Hi, Do we really need another one of these pointless rambling threads... if it helps to keep newcomers with FreeBSD. > > > > > I placed FreeBSD 10 on an empty disk and downloaded then the ports tree from yesterday. > > > > > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/Intel_GPU > > Read the FAQ ? The problem has not much to do with X. > > > Installation of Joe. > > > > Joe is always the first port I install as I am used to its commands. I then download and compile other ports. As I am currently on a low-bandwidth Internet connection, I try to keep the machine busy during the night with large downloads. > > Irrelevant It is as I only get errors like this when I install Joe first. > > > > > Parallel downloading and compilation of scribus and xorg-server > > > > > > How can we help newcomers to avoid this kind of problems? > > > > By contributing to PRs and the correct mailing list with solutions, > outcomes, patches etc... > I am one step further now. As I am getting errors like this very often since I use this method of installing ports I thought that there must be something basic what I am doing wrong. The cause of the problem happens much earlier. I used PCBSD to get FreeBSD onto the disk and did then a source upgrade. This went fine. But PCBSD installed many ports. I assumed now that after deleting them with 'pkg_delete -a' there are all gone and installation can start. Of course, pkg_delete brings some error messages that it could not delete this or that as the package list is wrong. After getting the errors mentioned here, I used to run 'make deinstall' in the affected port. This solved the problem. I wonder now what the difference between pkg_delete and make deinstall is. As I mentioned before, I am getting these errors randomly since around 2007. I obviously never used make deinstall then. I will go back now to the FreeBSD ports installation. > Part of it made it to this thread under a wrong subject line but its a > start... > > Erich