oddball syslog entries ....

[Mike Clarke]

On Wednesday 08 Oct 2014 08:34:04 William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
 
> [root at kabini1, /etc, 8:21:10am] 699 % pkg install -y wireshark
> tcpdump

<snip>

> New packages to be INSTALLED:
>          wireshark: 1.12.1 [FreeBSD]
>          linux-f10-xorg-libs: 7.4_1 [FreeBSD]

<snip>

> Installed packages to be REMOVED:
>          linux_base-c6-6.5_1

One of the dangers of using the "-y" option. There's not much point 
using this option when running interactively because it denies you the 
option of bailing out if it wants to do unexpected things.

Without the "-y" option if extra packages need to be installed they 
will be listed and you will be asked to confirm - it's an all or 
nothing question so you only have to type "y" or "n" once no matter 
how many packages are involved.

But I'm puzzled why it wanted to install the linux packages anyway 
neither wireshark nor tcpdump depend on them. Here's the output from a 
PC which didn't have any linux packages on it

=====================================================================
root at fbsd10:~ # pkg install -n wireshark tcpdump
Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
FreeBSD repository is up-to-date.
Updating FreeBSD_new_xorg repository catalogue...
FreeBSD_new_xorg repository is up-to-date.
All repositories are up-to-date.
The following 9 packages will be affected (of 0 checked):

New packages to be INSTALLED:
	wireshark: 1.12.1 [FreeBSD]
	gtk3: 3.8.8_1 [FreeBSD]
	colord: 1.0.1_3 [FreeBSD]
	at-spi2-atk: 2.8.0_1 [FreeBSD]
	at-spi2-core: 2.8.0_1 [FreeBSD]
	GeoIP: 1.6.2_1 [FreeBSD]
	libsmi: 0.4.8_1 [FreeBSD]
	adns: 1.4_2 [FreeBSD]
	tcpdump: 4.5.1 [FreeBSD]

The process will require 145 MB more space.
22 MB to be downloaded.
=====================================================================

BTW, as others have said tcpdump is part of the base system and you 
didn't need to install the port which offers additional bleeding-edge 
features. You can safely delete the tcpdump package.

-- 
Mike Clarke