Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 08:56:51 -0500 From: "Havener, Kevin" <Kevin.Havener@afccc.af.mil> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 3.4, Lyx-1.0.4, teTeX-1.0.6, packages and ports Message-ID: <E55BC5FC7AA9D211A00F00104B07D7DB48FC63@thor.afccc.af.mil>
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I'm trying to get some the subject versions to play well together.
Recently *upgraded* a 3.2 system to 3.4 (using official Walnut Creek CDROMs
for both original installation and upgrade). All appeared to go pretty well
with the upgrade. Some problems appeared, i.e., xemacs and some other (rxvt
if I remember correctly) would not install via package mechanism. However,
compiling from ports seems to have worked.
Lyx appears to have suffered a pkg_add oddity as well. The symptom is that
I'm unable to LaTeX ("view dvi" under the lyx menus) the lyx documentation.
I get several errors which seem to be related to my LaTeX installation,
which of course is provided by teTeX.
I pkg_deleted teTeX and lyx, cleaned up some cruft which appeared to be left
over from the 3.2 versions of each package. Everything worked under 3.2
incidentally :-(. Anyway, did the ports (make) thing, which, since the
source for these packages isn't on the 4CD set, ftp'd the tarballs, all 40
Mb, checked their sums, unpacked them, then began applying FreeBSD patches,
and then asked me which file I wished to patch. My experience with the
ports system is limited, but up until this time, I've never been asked such
a question. None of my guesses appear to be the right answer, and the make
fails. Story is the same for both lyx and teTeX--but of course I should
install teTeX first.
Question 1: What is the right answer if make asks me which "file to patch:
"? Shouldn't make know (at least have a default answer for this?
Question 2: Am I experiencing a normal amount of trouble with the
"packages" on the 3.4 official disks? 40 Mb is a lot to download (plus the
xemacs stuff also not included on the disks)!
Question 3: Should I forego the *upgrade* option when I get my 4.0 disks
and just reinstall?
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