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Date:      Mon, 8 Oct 2001 11:21:02 -0700
From:      Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   XFree86 4.1 on 4.4-stable
Message-ID:  <15297.61070.504038.428040@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us>
In-Reply-To: <01100823473101.04533@ks.tachyon.tech>
References:  <01100823473101.04533@ks.tachyon.tech>

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K S Sreeram writes:
 > After this i installed the XFree86-4.10_6 package from the
 > cdrom..... but i am facing an annoying problem, where none of the
 > ports recognize that x-windows has been installed, and they simply
 > try to download the source and recompile....
 > 
 > I was trying to install the package, so that i can avoid the bulky
 > download, and lengthy recompile....,

mkdir /var/db/pkg/XFree86-3.3.6

All ports are looking for X 3.3, not X 4.  Simply make the directory and
the ports will stop complaining.

/Joe

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