From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 29 16:34:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail.HiWAAY.net (fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CE9E151F8; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 16:34:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt8-216-180-14-173.dialup.HiWAAY.net [216.180.14.173]) by mail.HiWAAY.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0) with ESMTP id SAA31618; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 18:33:49 -0600 (CST) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA37306; Mon, 29 Mar 1999 18:33:46 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Message-Id: <199903300033.SAA37306@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "G. Adam Stanislav" , freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD: The Storage Wars In-reply-to: Message from charon@freethought.org of "Mon, 29 Mar 1999 14:03:10 PST." <3.0.5.32.19990329140310.00a32df0@mail> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 18:33:46 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org charon@freethought.org writes: > At 10:39 AM 3/29/99 -0600, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > >One strange thing though: I did that (installing KDE via > >/stand/sysinstall), and it kept complaining that X was not installed even > >though it was, just not from the ports (Pressing enter each time kept it > >moving along, just that I had to press it some 100 times or so). I have > >since reinstalled X from the ports. But I wonder if there is a way to > >register software somehow, so ports knows it already is installed for > >future reference. > > mkdir /var/db/pkg XFree86-3.3.3.1 ^ needs a slash right here The above will make most packages and ports happy but won't let you pkg_delete XFree86-3.3.3.1 as it doesn't know what to remove. As for myself, have decided building X is a good test of a freshly installed system. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message