Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:17:56 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: khaled.abu@gmail.com Subject: Re: a question about the pkg_add and "make install clean" Message-ID: <200503282017.56701.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <BAY104-F235183B5AD787C3E93AC02B5450@phx.gbl> References: <BAY104-F235183B5AD787C3E93AC02B5450@phx.gbl>
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On Monday 28 March 2005 07:27 pm, well sun wrote:
> thanks your answers. I use the ports-supfile and stable-supfile
> under /usr/share/examples/cvsup to do upgrade.
>
> I think I understand what the difference between the pkg_add and
> "make install".
>
> That is if I want to install the latest version, I should use the
> "make install" or get the xxx.tbz from the freebsd-current
> directory. Is it correct?
You have to understand up front that the KDE people will tell you that
"make install clean" will not build a clean KDE. You have to make and
then, make install for all of the pieces to be built.
Kent
>
> Could I make the default directory from 5.3-release to 6.0-current
> by change one configuration file? If I want to override the default
> fetching site of "pkg_add" command by some faster sites, how can I
> do?
>
> >From: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com>
> >Reply-To: racerx@makeworld.com
> >To: Abu Khaled <khaled.abu@gmail.com>
> >CC: well sun <sunwell@hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> >Subject: Re: a question about the pkg_add and "make install
> > clean" Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:38:56 -0600
> >
> >Abu Khaled wrote:
> >>On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 01:12:10 +0000, well sun
> >> <sunwell@hotmail.com>
> >>
> >>wrote:
> >>> I had install the freebsd5.3 with custom setup and only
> >>>install
> >>> the source code and base, not install xorg and perl. Then I
> >>> use cvsup
> >>> to upgrade stable source code and current ports. After doing
> >>>these, I
> >>> want to install the kde3 and gnome2. But I found when I use
> >>> the pkg_add command, freebsd will go to the directory under
> >>> "5.3-release",
> >>> it is older than the installation using "make install clean"
> >>>command.
> >>> For example, when I use pkg_add xorg, it will install 6.7
> >>>version.
> >>> When I use "make install clean", it will install 6.8.2
> >>> version. How
> >>> can I make them to install same versions? Another question
> >>> is, when I
> >>> install the xorg-clients, it give me a error message that
> >>>"libc.so.6"
> >>> not found, and many reference to *GL.so not found, how can I
> >>>fix it? I
> >>> had get the latest X11R7-src{1,2,3}.tar.bz2.
> >>
> >>My guess would be that you did not build/install world/kernel.
> >> So the
> >>package system still defaults to your 5.3 release branch. The
> >>sources/ports you updated must be for the development brach
> >>FreeBSD-5.X, also known as FreeBSD 5-STABLE "RELENG 5"
> >>
> >>Check your CVSUP configuration (supfile).
> >>if default tag=RELENG_5 then you are tracking 5.4 STABLE and you
> >>need
> >>to buildworld/kernel and install (check the handbook).
> >>
> >>If you don't whant to buildworld/kernel then change
> >> "tag=RELENG_5" to
> >>"tag=RELENG_5_3", cvsup again and your sources/ports well be the
> >>same
> >>as PACKAGES (the older ones)
> >
> >This is flat out wrong. The cvsup of the src tree and the ports
> > tree are seperate. You would use 2 seperate cvs files.
> >
> >Now, you "could" combine them I suppose (I dont know out right -
> > I have not done this. If you cvsup the ports tree (and it sounds
> > like you may have, by doing so, you have pulled in a "newer"
> > tree of the ports. Thus, a make install would get you the newest
> > installs (pending on when you cvsuped the ports tree) of those
> > programs.
> >
> >Using pkg_add is simply going out to the FBSD site and installing
> >the binary (pre compiled) versions that were released when the OS
> >was released.
> >
> >The proper tag for getting the latest ports tree under
> > 5.3-RELEASE would be this in the ports-supfile:
> >
> >*default release=cvs tag=.
> >
> >Remeber, as long as you keep your ports tree up to date, the
> >packages will always be outdated.
> >
> >You can find all this out by simply reading the handbook online.
> >
> >Please try to know what your talking about before confusing a
> >newbie.
> >
> >--
> >Best regards,
> >Chris
> >
> >Virtue is its own punishment.
>
>
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