Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 18:32:09 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: "'tbrock@mail.phoenix.net'" <tbrock@mail.phoenix.net> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: KDE themes Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105CCC@site2s1>
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Tony, I don't know exactly how much it would help you in this situation, but pkg_version is a useful utility when it works. I have several ports (such as bash and XFree) where it never knows what version is installed. But it does appear to be 90% accurate. -Chris P.S. What's the difference between 'make install' and 'make reinstall' > -----Original Message----- > From: Tony [SMTP:tbrock@mail.phoenix.net] > Sent: Monday, October 04, 1999 9:21 AM > To: ChrisMic@clientlogic.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: KDE themes > > On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, you wrote: > > Folks, > > Every seems to be sidestepping the solution. Install KDE 1.1.2, which > is in > > the current ports collection and that does have the theme manager. > > > > -Chris > > I'd like to add a little insight on installing the 1.1.2 port. This > actually > applies to ALL ports if you maintain an older system. > I've found that you can avoid many headaches if you reinstall every port > dependancy when dealing with window managers. It seems to me that we need > better version control in the dependancy tree. Just because a > /var/db/pkg/portname says it is installed doesn't necessarily mean the > correct > version is really there. Find the dependent libraries and api's in > /usr/ports > (graphics and x11), make deinstall and make reinstall those suckers if you > have > any problems. I even went so far as to reinstall dependencies of those > such as > libtool and gettext just to get a few of these libraries to compile > correctly. > This is on a cvsup'ed 3.3-R/ports machine and I've seen problems like this > for a long time. > If there is some utility to help avoid these situations I've not yet run > across > it. > > Tony > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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