From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 22 11:07:35 2005 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 9D38916A4CE for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:07:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A2E943D58 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:07:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from paul.richards@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id j1so444805rnf for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 03:07:32 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=OqlVZXi029x+rkTzBGR7/mUa6R0Q0AOMZg7hD9VOXhrOrS428CaAg8sM/y9aSQI4MeAY+9f6HUS2DJg0tDjzsJbY+xJXpvPbFno4Ra6Kie9mh/DhERyZiSYpX4SkSsMUCzS47fY2emNSMQOt/rGkFUHim3lSTtimEswBXR7Ex9Y= Received: by 10.38.163.58 with SMTP id l58mr191484rne; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 03:07:32 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.99.53 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 03:07:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:07:32 +0000 From: Paul Richards To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: <20050221193206.GA48995@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20050221193206.GA48995@xor.obsecurity.org> cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Items exist in ports, but not as packages. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Paul Richards List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:07:35 -0000 Well I hit a few compile errors which I had to tweak the source code to fix. My ports tree is the stock one which comes on the 5.3-RELEASE cds and so perhaps it's a little old. There's no harm in having to tweak source every now and again. :) It builds character. On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:32:06 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2005 at 10:50:12AM +0000, Paul Richards wrote: > > Hi, > > I've been trying to install a few packages using 'pkg_add -r' but I > > have found that there are a few which only exist as ports, and not > > packages. The main one which I am missing is 'vtk-tcl'. > > > > Is it generally the case that the precompiled packages are not always > > available when the ports are? According to freshports.org I should be > > able to use 'pkg_add -r' for vtk-tcl. > > http://pointyhat.freebsd.org shows that this port is currently broken. > > Kris > > > -- Paul Richards http://www.pauldoo.net