From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 22 14:47:56 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C75BC16A4CE for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:47:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from asmtp04.eresmas.com (asmtp04.eresmas.com [62.81.235.144]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D66CA43D5C for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:47:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ea1abz@wanadoo.es) Received: from [192.168.108.57] (helo=mx01.eresmas.com) by asmtp04.eresmas.com with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1D3Zjq-0001vC-81; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:06:06 +0100 Received: from [80.103.53.90] (helo=[80.103.53.90]) by mx01.eresmas.com with asmtp (Exim 4.41) id 1D3Zjo-0008HH-Sp; Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:06:06 +0100 Message-ID: <421B2E6E.5040001@wanadoo.es> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:06:54 +0100 From: Ramiro Aceves User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.9 (X11/20041124) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ramiro Aceves References: <4219D0E9.4060907@wanadoo.es> In-Reply-To: <4219D0E9.4060907@wanadoo.es> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.89.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) cc: freebsd-questions-en Subject: Re: Questions about ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 14:47:56 -0000 Ramiro Aceves wrote: > Hello FreeBSD friends > > I have a question about ports. I have installed FreeBSD 5.3 on a AMD 400 > MHz machine with 64 MB RAM, so it is not a fast machine for compiling > big programs! :-). The problem I am going to tell you, happened to me > several weeks ago into another slower machine (Pentium 75 in which there > is no OS now), and I can not remember some details, so I am sorry if I > am not too acurate. I suppose I will run into this problem again with > the AMD machine so I would like to understand it better. > > > 1- I installed mozilla 1.7.2-2,2 from the packages on the CDROM. > 2- I cvsuped the ports collection. > 3- I installed and compiled some programs from the updated ports > collection. > 4- Mozilla did not work anymore cause in needs atk-1.6.1. > > Mozilla in the package is 1.7.2_2,2 and depends on atk-1.6.1 > If I install programs from the updated ports tree, atk-1.8.0 was > installed for another port and atk-1.6.1 removed, but mozilla on the > CDROM package wants atk-1.6.1. So, If I try to install again from the > cdrom, it cant cause atk-1.8.0 is installed. > > Compilling mozilla in this slow machine is not reasonable, so: > > Can I download a more updated mozilla package acording to my updated > ports collection? I have browsed pkg_add man pages and believe that the > environment variables PACKAGESITE and PACKAGEROOT need to be set so that > pkg_add can fetch more updated packages. Am I right? Where should they > point to? > > I will use pkg_add only for big programs, and I can use the ports > collectio to compile the little ones. > > Many thanks. > > Ramiro. > Hey friends!, am I on your e-mail black list? ;-) It is strange that nobody has answered my question. I have been investigating further. Do you think I should download packages (not ports) from 5-stable instead from 5.3 release? I mean, are 5-stable packages closer to an up to date ports collection? I am waiting for a good advice before messing my ports! Thanks. Ramiro. > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >