Date: Sat, 18 Oct 1997 18:56:30 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: allenc@verinet.com Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XFree86 3.3.1 distribution problem Message-ID: <26864.877226190@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Oct 1997 19:31:18 MDT." <344962E6.4B14@verinet.com>
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> The new version of sysinstall has XFree86 3.3.1 among the canned > distributions. When I tried to install select parts of the 3.3.1 > distribution, sysinstall could not find the files in This was a bug in the distribution handling which has since been fixed, sorry. > I searched the mail archives and the bug database for futher information > on this problem. One reference in the bug database said I should > install the distribution manually. Fine, I'll just pkg_add the parts I > need: Heh, as you found out, these aren't actually packages though they are deceptively (for 8.3 reasons) given the same suffix. You're supposed to extract them according to the instructions found in README in the XF86331 directory (which is provided by the XFree86t project). Jordan
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