Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 11:32:06 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Paul Richards <paul.richards@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Items exist in ports, but not as packages. Message-ID: <20050221193206.GA48995@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <a1138db30502210250122287f7@mail.gmail.com> References: <a1138db30502210250122287f7@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCGjc2Wry0BWjoQKURAqDHAJ0aOLOPwcNcoUeMfdf2y9jHGCLNSgCgjBke SUUBnk43RGxG/ng6XJP8zqk= =/Swz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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