Gamin and fam conflict...

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Wed Apr 12 23:41:16 UTC 2006


On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 01:33:23AM +0200, Elod Kironsky wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 06:23:23PM -0500, Jeremy Messenger 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-\*
> >>    
> >
> >This may not leave a working system since they're not 100%
> >inter-compatible.
> >
> >Kris
> >  
> OK, but how do you install openoffice then? Since it needs gamin and fam 
> is there by default if you have KDE. At least it seems so.

You either recompile KDE or openoffice with the same setting
(fam/gamin) :-(

Kris
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