HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 ready for testing

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Sun May 20 02:23:37 UTC 2007


KAYVEN RIESE wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sun, 20 May 2007, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> 
>>
>> The closest I can find to any details on this is your posting of
>> 17 May 2007 12:05:07 -0700 where you post an extract of gtk20
>> failing to configure.  Did you follow the instructions that you
>> copied into that posting?
> 
> last thing i tried was:
> 
> #pkg_deinstall -f pango
> #cd /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/pango
> #make install clean
> #pkgdb -F; shutdown -h now
> 
> [went to  bed]
> 
> i have a note to
> 
> #portsnap fetch update
> 
> i am thinking of shutting out my _sole_ terminal running pine
> right now and following that instruction after i ctl-D my mailserver
> login back to my machine.
> 
> i remember trying to follow the instructions in an error message
> having to do with "deinstall (ferget)" and "reinstall (whateveritwas)"
> 
> now i am reading posts about doing repettive portupgrade -a  ..
> 
> i am sorry for having a "low comfort level."  i want to improve.
> its hard for me right now only having the ability to have one unix
> command line window open and no printer. if my X was up it would be
> easier.

gtk20 is causing me fits, but that's just the symptom. The cause is that 
the pkg database(s) are fubared and the ruby utils are doing a bad job 
at guessing where x11-toolkit/gtk20 is (even though the location hasn't 
changed >_>).

-Garrett


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