HEADS UP: xorg 7.2 ready for testing
Garrett Cooper
youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Sun May 20 02:30:15 UTC 2007
Garrett Cooper wrote:
> 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
BSD.local.dist still isn't available yet btw via portsnap (cause of
failure with gtk20). It is available however via c(v)sup.
-Garrett
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