Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2001 11:37:36 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Jim Mock <mij@osdn.com> Cc: Abc Xyz <abc@groggy.anc.acsalaska.net>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Borked XFree86-3.3.6 dependencies in packages (Re: X 3.3.6_7) Message-ID: <20010223113736.A73426@mollari.cthul.hu> In-Reply-To: <20010223085811.B1983@guinness.osdn.com>; from mij@osdn.com on Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 08:58:11AM -0500 References: <200102221321.EAA30854@groggy.anc.acsalaska.net> <20010223085811.B1983@guinness.osdn.com>
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--liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 08:58:11AM -0500, Jim Mock wrote: > On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 at 04:21:36 -0900, Abc Xyz wrote: > > many packages are looking for XFree86-3.3.6_7 ... > > and they say that it is "required" ... > >=20 > > and only the 4 series is available. > >=20 > > what happened to 3.3.6_7? >=20 > Uh, nothing. Look in your ports tree, specifically at=20 > /usr/ports/x11/XFree86... >=20 > PORTNAME=3D XFree86 > PORTVERSION=3D 3.3.6 > PORTREVISION=3D 7 But it's not built as a package, and by default the packages which use X try and register a dependency for it. Either we need to complete the transition to using XFree86-4 or provide an XFree86-3.3.6 package, and if possible, deal with the fact that people may have either of them installed, and get the dependency registration to work properly without complaining about missing packages and causing pkg_add -r to always fail. Kris --liOOAslEiF7prFVr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6lrwAWry0BWjoQKURAvz7AJ9soxwEoxn3WP1jfsyEqAwXjjC/EwCfXgZP t/BO+pn4fVSJn315ESuA2E4= =tsYD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --liOOAslEiF7prFVr-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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