From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 4 17:10:05 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2572916A469 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 17:10:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (66-230-99-27-cdsl-rb1.nwc.acsalaska.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CF0113C483 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 17:10:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by snoogles.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C57021CC38 for ; Tue, 4 Sep 2007 09:09:59 -0800 (AKDT) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 19:09:58 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20070904104305.L15038@pemaquid.safeport.com> In-Reply-To: <20070904104305.L15038@pemaquid.safeport.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200709041909.58635.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Subject: Re: pkg_add question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 17:10:05 -0000 On Tuesday 04 September 2007 18:32:15 doug@safeport.com wrote: > Over the weekend in trying to build xorg and kde from packages, none of the > various options for the package tree seemed to work. Plus the meta port for > kde was not available. > > If one goes to /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6-stable/kde (1) > /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/kde (2) > > there does not seems to be a kde meta port in (1). In (2) there is: > > kde-3.5.4.tbz -> ../All/kde-3.5.4.tbz > > In general all packages seem to be a symlink to ../All/.. That's how packages are stored. The real package in All/ and symlinks in the various categories that the package belongs to, plus a symlink in Latest, indicating the latest version of said package. There are packages for kde-3.5.7 in 6-stable. Kde-3.5.7 is the present version in ports. What exactly did you try and how did it fail? -- Mel People using reply to all on lists, must think I need 2 copies.