A packages question.

[doug at safeport.com]

thanks - I will try it this way

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004, Eric Kjeldergaard wrote:

> While this idea may seem good on the surface, it's really a very bad
> idea (and I speak from experience) to hand-modify your package
> database.  What you /should/ do instead is force the addition of the
> packages.  `pkg_add -f <packageName>`
>
>
> On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 22:16:45 -0400 (EDT), doug at safeport.com
> <doug at safeport.com> wrote:
> > Neither XFree86 4.4 nor Xorg supports the video on my laptop while XFree86 4.3
> > works.
> >
> > I want to set up the package database to say XFree 4.4 is installed to see if I
> > can install the latest packages. Does anyone know that this will not work? Also
> > if I could get some pointer on how to modify the package db or where this may be
> > documented
> >

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