From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 22 22:11:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from maildrop.velocet.net (maildrop.velocet.net [216.126.74.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F150937B422 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 22:11:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from magus (anime.ca [204.138.55.45]) by maildrop.velocet.net (Postfix) with SMTP id E149578208; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 01:11:08 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <000601c00cc0$8c672d00$0300a8c0@anime.ca> From: "William Wong" To: "Brett McCormick" Cc: References: <00c201c00cbc$7d6c2c00$0300a8c0@anime.ca> <14755.22219.906467.505578@gilliam.users.flyingcroc.net> Subject: Re: package/ports system Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 01:11:07 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Brett, As the ImageMagik package installs, it installs various dependancies. The older png package was one such dependancy. As with the linking part, I'm not quite sure. All I know is that it appears that the older png package is installed over the newer port. In my /var/db/pkg, an older png-1.0.7 directory is created. Regards, - Will ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brett McCormick" To: "William Wong" Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2000 12:44 AM Subject: Re: package/ports system > > Does it install the older png through the png port or does it just > come with ImageMagik? Also, it is installing the old png or just > linking it with ImageMagik? > > It could very well be that it just links with it. Many packages > statically link with zlib in this manner. > > --brett > > On Wednesday, 23 August 2000, at 00:42:05, William Wong wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > I'm not sure if this is a known issue but here's the prob. > > > > I had installed the png-1.0.8 port from Ports so the lib is in my system. > > When I install the package version of ImageMagik (which depends on libpng), > > it installs an older png-1.0.7 package. Shouldn't the package system check > > to see that I already have the updated port? > > > > I installed ImageMagik from package because the Port depends on too many X > > dependant Ports which don't compile right on my system. > > > > Thanks, > > - Will > > > > PS. I am not on this ml. > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message