From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 23 04:16:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 7C94116A420 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 04:16:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [63.240.77.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D82C43D45 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 04:16:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from [192.168.214.216] (c-24-1-232-64.hsd1.tx.comcast.net[24.1.232.64]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2006022304164801200itg92e>; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 04:16:48 +0000 Message-ID: <43FD372F.2060701@computer.org> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 22:16:47 -0600 From: Eric Schuele User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060113) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ow Mun Heng References: <1140659905.1984.20.camel@neuromancer.home.net> <43FD3301.6030105@computer.org> <1140667363.4762.34.camel@neuromancer.home.net> In-Reply-To: <1140667363.4762.34.camel@neuromancer.home.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 04:16:54 -0000 Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:58 -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: >> Ow Mun Heng wrote: > >>> In gentoo, it's a simple "emerge xterm" and all will be done >>> automatically. (Granted, this is compile from source and not from binary >>> packages, which I know can do "cd /usr/ports/x11/xterm && make install >>> clean", but since FreeBSD has binary packages, I rather use that) >> Try 'man portupgrade'. Look at "-P" or "-PP" switch. might be what you >> need. I would imagine you'd have the best results if you pulled the >> package down manually then ran portupgrade with appropriate switches. > > I followed the advice of Kevin Kinsey and tried it out. > It's working. Just like Gentoo's Emerge (emerge -Kav xterm) Ah. Got distracted by kids and never finished reading his entire post. Sorry for the noise. > > The only thing (again) unnerving is this statement. > > [snip] > pkg_delete: package 'gettext-0.14.5' is required by these other packages > and may not be deinstalled (but I'll delete it anyway): <--- *anyway*?? > bash-3.1.10 > [/snip] > Don't worry. Its normal. Any loose ends with respect to dependencies will get tied up later. > -- Regards, Eric