Error in upgrading xorg (no metaport installed)

Bob McDonald bob.tdlc at gmail.com
Mon May 28 08:50:39 UTC 2007


OK, I remade and installed the kernel and world, but I'm still left
with the same dependency error I was left with before.  I'm a bit
baffled as to where to go from here.

Bob

On 5/22/07, Bob McDonald <bob.tdlc at gmail.com> wrote:
> I updated my ports tree, but it doesn't seem that anything related was
> updated when I cvsupped so I think it was complete:
>
> Updating collection ports-all/cvs
> Edit ports/deskutils/deskbar-applet/Makefile
> Edit ports/deskutils/deskbar-applet/files/patch-deskbar_Utils.py
> Edit ports/devel/desktop-file-utils/Makefile
> Edit ports/devel/glib20/Makefile
> Edit ports/devel/glib20/files/patch-glib_gutils.c
> Edit ports/ftp/proftpd/Makefile
> Finished successfully
>
> uname -v shows:
>
> FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Oct 20 18:39:35 JST 2006
> root at bender:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP
>
> So maybe it is that the base system is too old?  I won't be able to
> get to fixing that until this weekend (and probably not then either),
> but it seems like maybe that is my best hpe at the moment?
>
> best regards,
>
> Bob McDonald
>
> On 5/21/07, Bob McDonald <bob.tdlc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I looked in my environment and while I see that directory in my path,
> > I don't see anything to direct X to be installed there.  I've set my
> > nightly cvsup/portsdb script to run while I'm headed home on the train
> > so when I get home I should have freshly updated the ports tree (of
> > course I was getting pkgdb errors so maybe that will get in the way?)
> >
> > Should I rerun the command that failed to see i fthe ports tree update
> > worked or are there other steps I should follow now?
> >
> > thanks!
> >
> > Bob
> >
> > On 5/21/07, Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 05:34:55PM +0900, Bob McDonald wrote:
> > > > If that is the only other optiuon then I must have an incompletely
> > > > updated prots tree, but that seems somewhat unlikely too.  Might there
> > > > be another file aside from /etc/make.conf that was configuring it to
> > > > work that way?  There was nothing like that in /etc/make.conf
> > >
> > > Possibly it could be set in your environment too.  Try updating your
> > > ports tree again though
> > >
> > > Kris
> > >
> >
>


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