Ports woes.

[K Anderson]

Kent Stewart wrote:
> On Monday 22 September 2003 08:45 pm, cuddlesomebunny wrote:
> 
>>Could anybody explain to me what is up with ports?
>>
>>I am using FreeBSD 5.x-p2 and I am using ports and am having one hell
>>of a time installing things.
>>
>>Here's what is happeng.
>>
>>I go to install ports and if it needs to get a dependency it goes and
>>fetches it and becomes the usual compile process. Except that the
>>dependency might already be installed with the exact version required
>>and so most of the time the ports error out telling me I need to make
>>deinstall on some dependency then make reinstall on it.
>>
>>And don't even get me started on installing Apache. I tried
>>installing mod_php4 but before hand installed apache+ssl and so then
>>mod_php4 doesn't even see that apache is already installed and then
>>fetches the version it wants thus blowing out the apache+ssl and I
>>have to then reinstall that package to get ssl and apache.
>>
>>If I do things with /stand/sysinstall it errors out on a dependency
>>if it is already installed instead of ignoring the fact that it is
>>already there and errors out. This particular behavour started around
>>4.8 or so. Maybe earlier but I don't seem to recall exactly when this
>>started to happen.
>>
>>I tried using the portupgrade stuffs but that just seems to make
>>things worse overall.
>>
>>Anybody got any hints as to why it seems ports is having these sorts
>>of problems? 
> 
> 
> I don't have any idea what you problem is; however, there is an ongoing 
> discussion on -current with people having port problems. What I 
> remember is that the freeze has them locked and they can't patch the 
> ports to build and install on -current until the port freeze is over. 
> You might be caught by this problem or something entirely different.
> 
> Kent
> 
Mmmmm, could be. But would that explain why /stand/sysinstall can't 
install something just because a given dependency exists already on the 
system?

CS. Bunny.