Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 18:33:46 -0600 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD: The Storage Wars Message-ID: <199903300033.SAA37306@nospam.hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: Message from charon@freethought.org of "Mon, 29 Mar 1999 14:03:10 PST." <3.0.5.32.19990329140310.00a32df0@mail>
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charon@freethought.org writes:
> At 10:39 AM 3/29/99 -0600, G. Adam Stanislav wrote:
> >One strange thing though: I did that (installing KDE via
> >/stand/sysinstall), and it kept complaining that X was not installed even
> >though it was, just not from the ports (Pressing enter each time kept it
> >moving along, just that I had to press it some 100 times or so). I have
> >since reinstalled X from the ports. But I wonder if there is a way to
> >register software somehow, so ports knows it already is installed for
> >future reference.
>
> mkdir /var/db/pkg XFree86-3.3.3.1
^ needs a slash right here
The above will make most packages and ports happy but won't let you
pkg_delete XFree86-3.3.3.1 as it doesn't know what to remove.
As for myself, have decided building X is a good test of a freshly
installed system.
--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net
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