a question about the pkg_add and "make install clean"

[Kent Stewart]

On Monday 28 March 2005 07:27 pm, well sun wrote:
>    thanks your answers. I use the ports-supfile and stable-supfile
> under /usr/share/examples/cvsup to do upgrade.
>
>    I think I understand what the difference between the pkg_add and
> "make install".
>
>    That is if I want to install the latest version, I should use the
>    "make install" or get the xxx.tbz from the freebsd-current
> directory. Is it correct?

You have to understand up front that the KDE people will tell you that 
"make install clean" will not build a clean KDE. You have to make and 
then, make install for all of the pieces to be built.

Kent

>
>    Could I make the default directory from 5.3-release to 6.0-current
> by change one configuration file? If I want to override the default
> fetching site of "pkg_add" command by some faster sites, how can I
> do?
>
>    >From: Chris <racerx at makeworld.com>
>    >Reply-To: racerx at makeworld.com
>    >To: Abu Khaled <khaled.abu at gmail.com>
>    >CC: well sun <sunwell at hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>    >Subject: Re: a question about the pkg_add and "make install
>    > clean" Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:38:56 -0600
>    >
>    >Abu Khaled wrote:
>    >>On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 01:12:10 +0000, well sun
>    >> <sunwell at hotmail.com>
>    >>
>    >>wrote:
>    >>>       I had install the freebsd5.3 with custom setup and only
>    >>>install
>    >>>   the source code and base, not install xorg and perl. Then I
>    >>> use cvsup
>    >>>   to upgrade stable source code and current ports. After doing
>    >>>these, I
>    >>>   want to install the kde3 and gnome2. But I found when I use
>    >>> the pkg_add command, freebsd will go to the directory under
>    >>> "5.3-release",
>    >>>   it is older than the installation using "make install clean"
>    >>>command.
>    >>>   For example, when I use pkg_add xorg, it will install 6.7
>    >>>version.
>    >>>   When I use "make install clean", it will install 6.8.2
>    >>> version. How
>    >>>   can I make them to install same versions?  Another question
>    >>> is, when I
>    >>>   install the xorg-clients, it give me a error message that
>    >>>"libc.so.6"
>    >>>   not found, and many reference to *GL.so not found, how can I
>    >>>fix it? I
>    >>>   had get the latest X11R7-src{1,2,3}.tar.bz2.
>    >>
>    >>My guess would be that you did not build/install world/kernel.
>    >> So the
>    >>package system still defaults to your 5.3 release branch. The
>    >>sources/ports you updated must be for the development brach
>    >>FreeBSD-5.X, also known as FreeBSD 5-STABLE "RELENG 5"
>    >>
>    >>Check your CVSUP configuration (supfile).
>    >>if default tag=RELENG_5 then you are tracking 5.4 STABLE and you
>    >>need
>    >>to buildworld/kernel and install (check the handbook).
>    >>
>    >>If you don't whant to buildworld/kernel then change
>    >> "tag=RELENG_5" to
>    >>"tag=RELENG_5_3", cvsup again and your sources/ports well be the
>    >>same
>    >>as PACKAGES (the older ones)
>    >
>    >This is flat out wrong. The cvsup of the src tree and the ports
>    > tree are seperate. You would use 2 seperate cvs files.
>    >
>    >Now, you "could" combine them I suppose (I dont know out right -
>    > I have not done this. If you cvsup the ports tree (and it sounds
>    > like you may have, by doing so, you have pulled in a "newer"
>    > tree of the ports. Thus, a make install would get you the newest
>    > installs (pending on when you cvsuped the ports tree) of those
>    > programs.
>    >
>    >Using pkg_add is simply going out to the FBSD site and installing
>    >the binary (pre compiled) versions that were released when the OS
>    >was released.
>    >
>    >The proper tag for getting the latest ports tree under
>    > 5.3-RELEASE would be this in the ports-supfile:
>    >
>    >*default release=cvs tag=.
>    >
>    >Remeber, as long as you keep your ports tree up to date, the
>    >packages will always be outdated.
>    >
>    >You can find all this out by simply reading the handbook online.
>    >
>    >Please try to know what your talking about before confusing a
>    >newbie.
>    >
>    >--
>    >Best regards,
>    >Chris
>    >
>    >Virtue is its own punishment.
>
>     
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