Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:36 -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote:
> On Wednesday 22 February 2006 20:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote:

> > what about the dependency then? Ignore it? What if there are "files"
> > needed by xorg-clients? eg: libXX.so.Y and which is not present in
> > the new xterm?
> >
> Since you want to replace it with a newer version, why are you worried 
> about the dependencies. The newer version will take care of that. Of 
> course, if you delete xterm and don't replace it, then you will have to 
> handle the dependencies.

So, I do pkg_del -f xterm and then a pkg_add -vr xterm-206_1 and it will
upgrade xorg-clients if needed? If yes, then Good.

> 
> > > What you are trying to do is update using downloaded packages and
> > > that is going to work for you. You need to upgrade those packages
> > > using the ports system.
> >
> > IS or is not?
> 
> Is or is not what? I don't understand what you're asking here. You need 
> to use more than a 4 word question, of which 2 of the words are the 
> same. It tends to be confusing.

Sorry but You're confusing me too. Read your sentence "update using
downloaded packages and that is (?NOT?) going to work for you"

> 
> >
> > Again, I don't want to compile it. I want the binary package. It's
> > available on the mirrors.
> >
> No It's not. The port is available on the mirrors. So compile it, or 
> leave the old one in place.

lftp ftp.tw.frebsd.org
lftp ftp.tw.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/x11
ls -l | grep xterm
lrwxr-xr-x Nov 28 09:12 xterm-206_1.tbz -> ../All/xterm-206_1.tbz
get xterm-206_1.tbz
quit
tar -v -t -f xterm-206_1.tar 
-rw-r--r-- root/wheel     1560 2006-02-07 15:20:18 +CONTENTS
-rw-r--r-- root/wheel       42 2006-02-07 15:20:18 +COMMENT
-rw-r--r-- root/wheel      479 2006-02-07 15:20:18 +DESC
-r--r--r-- root/wheel     8654 2006-02-07 15:20:18 +MTREE_DIRS
-r--r--r-- root/wheel     1313 2006-02-07 15:19:55 man/man1/resize.1.gz
-r--r--r-- root/wheel    41772 2006-02-07 15:19:55 man/man1/xterm.1.gz
-rwxr-xr-x root/wheel    10104 2006-02-07 15:19:54 bin/resize
-rwxr-xr-x root/wheel     2118 2006-02-07 15:19:54 bin/uxterm
-rws--x--x root/wheel   252996 2006-02-07 15:19:54 bin/xterm
-r--r--r-- root/wheel     1527 2006-02-07 15:19:55
lib/X11/app-defaults/UXTerm
-r--r--r-- root/wheel     6551 2006-02-07 15:19:55
lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm
-r--r--r-- root/wheel     4232 2006-02-07 15:19:55
lib/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color

> > I'm proficient with the CLI, and being a long time Linux person, I'm
> > sad to say that FreeBSD ports/packages is really confusing to me.
> >
> 
> Use Windows instead. All that takes is money.

Why the sarcasm?

> > > Available packages are not as up to date as the ports system is.
> >
> > Again, the package _is_ available and I've verified it.
> > Thanks
> >
> 
> I'm sorry. You've verified the port was available. The package is not. I 
> just checked.

See above. I too do my own verification before shooting emails out to
mail lists

> 
> At this point, I'm going to close my ears eyes to you. You've been given 
> advice by me and others 

and I thank you and them for it.

Thanks again.



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