Installing Cacti from Ports

[Adam Vande More]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:31 PM, mailinglist <mailinglist at ucwv.edu> wrote:

> I hada VM running an older installation of FreeBSD 7.2.  I recently got
> back to it and tried to install Cacti from the ports collection.  I cvsup'd
> in an up-to-date ports collection, and did the usual "make, make install"
> for Cacti.  During the "make install" process a dependency failed to build.
>  I believe it was xcb-utils that failed to build because XCB was at version
> 1.2 and needed to be at 1.4.  I couldn't get the issue resolved no matter
> what I tried.  I ended up giving up.....later on I went through the
> "freebsd-update" process and upgraded to a newer version of 7.2.  After that
> Cacti and all dependencies built and installed successfully.  Was XCB
> upgraded when I did the freebsd-update process?  Or what?  I'm just trying
> to find out what happened.....  Thanks!
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You might want to try a tool like portmaster or portupgrade to manage these
dependency and package backup process.

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Adam Vande More