7 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-questionsRe: ports question| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Chip | Oct 28, 2000 6:25 pm | |
| Mike Meyer | Oct 29, 2000 11:00 am | |
| Crist J . Clark | Oct 29, 2000 12:07 pm | |
| Chip | Oct 29, 2000 12:39 pm | |
| Mike Meyer | Oct 29, 2000 11:40 pm | |
| Crist J . Clark | Oct 30, 2000 12:11 am | |
| Mike Meyer | Oct 30, 2000 12:31 am |
| Subject: | Re: ports question | |
|---|---|---|
| From: | Chip (ch...@wiegand.org) | |
| Date: | Oct 29, 2000 12:39:55 pm | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-questions | |
"Crist J . Clark" wrote:
On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 01:00:56PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote:
Chip writes:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that when installing a port it would also update any dependencies. For example, I want to install xfce from the port, but it failed apparently on esound. So I then went to install esound by itself by it failed with the message that libtool is out of date. So I used pkg_delete on the old libtool and then installed the new libtool port, and now xfce installs just fine because esound also installs fine. I thought stuff like this got updated by installing from the port? This is the first time this sort of problem has happened to me, and I have installed many of the ports just to see what some of these programs are.
Well, "updating" a port isn't something the ports system deals with every well. It tries to *install* the dependencies if it can't find them. Libtool seems to break under these conditions, but it's the only thing I've run into that does.
IMHO, this is the correct behavior.
Other ports have simply installed multiple versions of the port.
Not really, other ports have _overwritten_ earlier versions of the port without changing the package database. That, IMHO, is bad. I'd rather be warned to remove the old and install the new than just clobber the old with new.
-- Crist J. Clark cjcl...@alum.mit.edu
I tend to agree with you Crist. My thoughts on are this (I am still relatively new to FBSD, less than a year still). If I was asked 'do you want to overwrite such-n-such with a newer version' I'm not sure I would be able to make the right choice. I wouldn't know the implications of overwriting or not overwriting, would it break some other program or not? I, being a newby, would probably just answer with 'yes' and live with the results. I'm not a programmer so fixing the resultant problems, if there were any, would be beyond my ability. I'm not sure where I'm going with this, but I think there is no perfect solution, there will always be a problem cropping up somewhere. In my situation described above I was able to fix the problem, and I must say I take a bit of pride in the fact that I did, even if it was only a small thing. But thats how we all get started right? Start at the bottom and work our way up. If this seems a bit scatter-brained its because I have so many things going on my little network to learn - apache, php, mysql, shell scripts, ipfw, and I still want to get dns running. Lots to learn and not enough time.
-- Chip W. www.wiegand.org Alternative Operating Systems
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