From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 30 10:31:39 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0D7B1A95 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 10:31:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eu1sys200aog122.obsmtp.com (eu1sys200aog122.obsmtp.com [207.126.144.153]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5FD0826E1 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 10:31:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f172.google.com ([209.85.212.172]) (using TLSv1) by eu1sys200aob122.postini.com ([207.126.147.11]) with SMTP ID DSNKU7E8csPeqEhV5av8pTc2mimSXncX/xv9@postini.com; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 10:31:38 UTC Received: by mail-wi0-f172.google.com with SMTP id hi2so5788265wib.5 for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 03:31:14 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:message-id:to:subject:reply-to; bh=VMzzKTuRxWMo4mHTZ4HNVwEFfybEIBpLEV36PUXULIo=; b=EGTsoPZY3mURsFSBk5wgBPXHa7bGJQjpgAUZBSKNwLDGy87goipE1mMM+agvlKndzq xKefhePkbNlM6kS/KU6gMw5kbzH1xyjJ8SRNL6lLivxhL+Q03IsPdDZr+tKtkvzs+NRO 6Myi+hrYleihZWIcFaE2FidBpA0De0wFGgrqqqW8W0JjpDvCtufGgyizj4a7Ld/P3DV4 OmfEQtVhMnYL6V2hxPZK+VMU9u0FLH9NsfAhwsQIYzAggvhdwJqJrfzWfrr217OGSWtV 4lBHuRJW4R4x1gY1o+mWxyWT0c054ykiVHQ2aH1oZBxROJ8/d0vXvSsI+oh1yoko3B79 IoHw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQmG+VTliW7ftqiZF9F+HF4fh/xoA7TBSsMryLYF6mCVYEtuZdluNxH5c4K8pZUYTC4QXyONclfmStdmPYgDdOh6uMR993xDhT6D+09eubQ+YkPGDRggF67aQ1zAIRLonsP5KE+C8qLh4Hiu5vOI6pf3TpfuqQ== X-Received: by 10.194.110.161 with SMTP id ib1mr1683540wjb.129.1404124274001; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 03:31:14 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.194.110.161 with SMTP id ib1mr1683520wjb.129.1404124273844; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 03:31:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk. [137.222.187.241]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id fs17sm2217315wjc.6.2014.06.30.03.31.12 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 30 Jun 2014 03:31:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s5UAVB7E086457 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:31:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk) Received: (from mexas@localhost) by mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk (8.14.8/8.14.8/Submit) id s5UAVBed086456 for freebsd-ports@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:31:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mexas) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 11:31:11 +0100 (BST) From: Anton Shterenlikht Message-Id: <201406301031.s5UAVBed086456@mech-cluster241.men.bris.ac.uk> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: large pkg installs - experience Reply-To: mexas@bris.ac.uk X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 10:31:39 -0000 Last week I needed to prepare 3 FreeBSD boxes for UG students. Since there were not for me, I wanted to have as painless experence as possible. All boxes are amd64. So I chose 10-release. I wanted to try gnome on one box, xfce on the second, and kde on the third, i.e. the 3 environments described in the handbook. Here is my experience. 1. Gnome is the clear winner - exactly as in the manual, and all packages available form the default repo. 2. Xfce install required some tweaking, I think not all packages were available from the default repo. In addition, I had to amend .xsession mentioned in the manual: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html echo "exec /usr/local/bin/startxfce4" >> ~/.xsession to this: if [ -z "$DESKTOP_SESSION" -a -x /usr/bin/ck-launch-session ]; then exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 else exec dbus-launch /usr/local/bin/startxfce4 fi 3. KDE was in third place, i.e. last - I could not install it at all. The stumbling block was libGLU, which didn't want to install unless I set WITH_NEW_XORG. Does this mean that KDE is available only for new Xorg? I tried to set this in make.conf, but got errors on X -configure and freezes while trying to run X. When I have time, I might give in another go and send a PR. Finally, the issue of coexisting texlive and tetex seems to be still unresolved: pkg: WARNING: locally installed tex-kpathsea-6.1.0_2 conflicts on /usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf with: - teTeX-base-3.0_25. or am I missing some make setting? Anton