I had an old version of ports and installed xorg and gnome2-lite using
pkg_add. Then tried to build (make) openoffice-3. The make croaked
with some missing java licensing files which were old.
So... I updated the ports tree via
portsnap fetch
portsnap extract
portsnap update
Following that, an attempt to make openoffice-3 croaks because xorg and
gnome2-lite installed pcre-8.20 and the oo make requires pcre-8.30_2.
Deleted packages using
pkg_delete -drv pcre-8.20
Reinstalled xorg using pkg_add, which unfortunately reinstalled
pcre-8.20. I was expecting it to pick up the more recent one.
I expected the portsnap update to update packages to a point where they
would be using the more recent pcre.
Questions:
1. If a package depends on an old version of another package, is it
generally supposed to work with a newer version?
2. Will the xorg package work with pcre-8.30_2 if I install that first?
If not, should building the port instead work?
3. I tried doing
pkg_delete -f pcre-8.20
cd devel/pcre
make (built 8.30_2)
make install
X still came up but gnome2 didn't.
I'm pretty sure core x doesn't require pcre, but whatever part of
the xorg package that does use it will croak when the time comes.
4. As a result of 3, are the dependency counts in the package
registration process all screwed up?
5. If packages depending on older versions of pcre won't work with a
newer version and a different port requires a newer version, how do you
accomplish that? Will building the older port, instead of installing
the package for it, generally allow the older port and the one requiring
the newer version of pcre to co-exist?
6. What am I doing wrong? Surely there's a way to get both xorg and oo
on the same system...
Side issue:
The pkg_delete occasionally stopped to ask whether or not to delete a
file with mode 555. Despite being nervous about it, I said yes and it
seemed to cause no problems. Any particular reason these are installed
555, since they are part of an add-on package? Don't have the names,
unfortunately.
Thanks for any insights,
Gary
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