Gamin and fam conflict...

Elod Kironsky kironsky at grisoft.cz
Wed Apr 12 23:32:25 UTC 2006


Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:23:23 -0500, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> 
> wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:12:33 -0500, David J Brooks 
>> <daeg at houston.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday 12 April 2006 17:43, Elod Kironsky wrote:
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to install Openoffice 2.0.2 from a binary package. I got,
>>>> that some packages are missing, so I started to install them. I built
>>>> the latest gamin port, but when I try to install it, I get a warning,
>>>> that fam is already installed and gamin installs into the same
>>>> directory. Now can I pkg_delete fam and install gamin safely? I see,
>>>> that fam is needed by a bunch of KDE ports. Can I do that or at least
>>>> install gamin over fam?
>>>
>>> Deinstall fam and install gamin (or vice-versa, they are 
>>> functionally the
>>> same.) Then run portsdb -Fu to update dependencies from fam to 
>>> gamin. Read
>>> man 1 portsdb for more details.
>>
>> The portsdb won't help, which it's for INDEX stuff. You need to add 
>> WITH_FAM_SYSTEM=gamin in make.conf, then do the -o in portupgrade to 
>> replace.
>>
>>     portupgrade -f -o devel/gamin fam-\*
>>
>> If you arleady uninstall fam, then no need to use portupgrade and run 
>> kgdb -f'.
>
> 'pkgdb -f'
>
>> Cheers,
>> Mezz
>>
>>> David
>
>
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OK, I just want to know this for sure. Now I have still fam installed. 
So I can safely run the following?

1.) pkg_delete fam
2.) make install (for gamin)
3.) pkgdb -f

Is this right so?

Elod


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