From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 28 00:21:00 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA06255 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 00:21:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gate1.ovitanutricia.com.pl (gate1.ovitanutricia.com.pl [212.244.109.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA06235 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 00:20:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mariusz@ovitanutricia.com.pl) Received: (from mail@localhost) by gate1.ovitanutricia.com.pl (8.9.1/8.9.1) id JAA19017; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:19:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from poczta.ovitanutricia.com.pl(10.0.0.8) by gate1.ovitanutricia.com.pl via smap (V2.1) id xma019015; Thu, 28 Jan 99 09:19:46 +0100 Received: from kostucha.ovitanutricia.com.pl (kostucha.ovitanutricia.com.pl [10.0.0.180]) by poczta.ovitanutricia.com.pl (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA22229; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:19:23 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990127235704.00a2d140@mail> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 09:19:34 +0100 (CET) Organization: Ovita Nutricia Poland From: Mariusz Potocki To: charon@freethought.org Subject: Re: XFree86 and packages Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, Evren Yurtesen Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 28-Jan-99 charon@freethought.org wrote: > At 02:01 AM 1/28/99 +0200, Evren Yurtesen wrote: >>I guess you may use; >> >> -f Force installation to proceed even if prerequisite packages are >> not installed or the requirements script fails. Although > pkg_add >> will still try to find and auto-install missing prerequisite >> packages, a failure to find one will not be fatal. >> >>I think that you will still be able to use packages without any problem >>even though you see some error messages. >> >> >>On Wed, 27 Jan 1999 charon@freethought.org wrote: >> >>> The packages I'm trying to install require XFree86, but don't recognize >>> that I have it on my system because I didn't install it via port (I >>> downloaded it from www.XFree86.org and followed their directions). What do >>> I need to do to make window managers, etc. recognize that I have X > installed? > > When I force a pkg_add, I get a message that dependency registration is > incomplete. Does this cause a problem? The fact that XFree86 _isn't_ a > package makes me wonder why the system is looking for it to be registered > in /var/db/pkg in the first place. I can't install XFree via port because > my laptop (the FreeBSD machine) isn't networked... any suggestions? > I already wrote about it on the list, but: cd /var/db/pkg mkdir XFree86-3.3.2 ln -s XFree86-3.3.2 XFree86-3.3.3 It create a fake records, where pkg_add will store dependencies. -- Mariusz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message