On Sunday 02 March 2003 12:01 pm, Cliff Sarginson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 01:49:21PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Cliff Sarginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > > Will the ports maintainers *please* make sure they release > > > compilable ports..especially for the big mothers like X/KDE. > > > > I'm sure they do. However, they can't test in your environment. The > > X ports built fine for me. I don't use KDE, so haven't tried to > > build that. If you send the maintainer a note with the error > > messages when you tried to build the port, they might be able to > > fix it. A generic "it didn't build" on -questions almost certainly > > means that nothing will happen. > > Ok Mike, I really do always respect your advice. > I want as much as anyone else that things *work*. > I do not mind geting my hand dirty, if it improves things. > But I think, after reflecting on it, that the ports system is in a > mess. I will see if I can be more positive about improving it. > But I am dmned if I am going to learn Ruby :)
I just finished building kde and X. In the last 2 weeks I have portupgrade -puf portupgrade portupgrade -pufr png portupgrade -pufr fontconfig portupgrade -pufr libxml2 portupgrade -pufr ghostscript-gnu I have also done a portupgrade -pufR XFree86 on a box with problems. It wasn't X with the problem it turns out. I just wanted a clean X. There was a minor problem with ghostscript-gnu's font directory during the deinstall phase. I removed and did a make package to reinstall it. What portupgrade options are you using? When you do "-r", you have to force "-f". Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
