Package from the packages-5.1-release directory won't install on a 5.1 system

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 05:12:36PM -0500, Francis Litterio wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 01:22:38PM -0500, Francis Litterio wrote:
> 
> >> I have a stock 5.1 release system, but when I try to install the package
> >> amsn-0.71_1.tbz, which I downloaded from
> >> 
> >> ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.1-release/All/amsn-0.71_1.tbz
> >> 
> >> pkg_add says it needs version "tcl-8.4.3,1" of tcl but my 5.1 system has
> >> tcl version "8.3.5_2" installed.  I have not changed my tcl installation
> >> since I installed 5.1, so that's the tcl that comes with 5.1.
> >
> > That's the version of tcl 8.3 that comes with 5.1.  The version of tcl
> > 8.4 that comes with 5.1 is 8.4.3,1.  They are different packages.
> 
> Thanks for replying.
> 
> In what sense does tcl 8.4 "come with 5.1" if it is not installed when I
> install _everything_ from the 5.1 install CD?

tcl 8.4 presumably isn't on the install CD, like about 8000 other
packages that also do not fit.

> This is what confuses me: How can tcl 8.4.3,1 be a 5.1 package if it
> depends on packages that are not installed with the 5.1 release?  Sure,
> any package can be a "5.1 package" as long as I upgrade enough other
> packages.

The full set of packages is available on the FTP site.  It would take
about a dozen CDs to fit them all.

Kris
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