Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1999 09:57:09 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> To: Yusuf Goolamabbas <yusufg@huge.net> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is Berkeley DB package not ELF compliant Message-ID: <Pine.HPP.3.96.990108095446.4588E-100000@hp9000.chc-chimes.com> In-Reply-To: <19990108081209.17477.qmail@yusufg.portal2.com>
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On 8 Jan 1999, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote: > Hi , I am relative Newbie FreeBSD user (one week old) > I wanted to install Berkeley DB 2.3.16 to use with OpenLDAP > (http://www.openldap.org) on a 3.0-RELEASE machine > > First I added the package 2.2.7-to-2.2-stable as described in the > ports page, then I did > > pkg_add > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages-stable/All/db-2.3.16.tgz > which made me think that db-2.3.16 was not made "ELF compliant" > (?). so I did > pkg_delete db-2.3.16 > cd /usr/ports/database/db ; make ; make install > Recompiled Openldap and everything was cool > > Can FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE users use packages from the the ports > described via http://www.freebsd.org/ports, or should they only use > /stand/sysinstall (btw, Berkeley DB 2.3.16 is not visible via this > mechanism) You're using (a.out) -STABLE packages on a 3.0-CURRENT (ELF) system, doesn't that strike you as an odd thing to do? Use ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/.../packages-current/... PS. RSN I will commit patches to pkg_add that will make remotly adding packages easier. Stay tuned. - bill fumerola - billf@chc-chimes.com - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - bfumerol@computerhorizons.com - billf@FreeBSD.org - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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