Hello FreeBSD friends
I have a question about ports. I have installed FreeBSD 5.3 on a AMD 400 MHz machine with 64 MB RAM, so it is not a fast machine for compiling big programs! :-). The problem I am going to tell you, happened to me several weeks ago into another slower machine (Pentium 75 in which there is no OS now), and I can not remember some details, so I am sorry if I am not too acurate. I suppose I will run into this problem again with the AMD machine so I would like to understand it better.
1- I installed mozilla 1.7.2-2,2 from the packages on the CDROM.
2- I cvsuped the ports collection.
3- I installed and compiled some programs from the updated ports collection.
4- Mozilla did not work anymore cause in needs atk-1.6.1.
Mozilla in the package is 1.7.2_2,2 and depends on atk-1.6.1
If I install programs from the updated ports tree, atk-1.8.0 was installed for another port and atk-1.6.1 removed, but mozilla on the CDROM package wants atk-1.6.1. So, If I try to install again from the cdrom, it cant cause atk-1.8.0 is installed.
Compilling mozilla in this slow machine is not reasonable, so:
Can I download a more updated mozilla package acording to my updated ports collection? I have browsed pkg_add man pages and believe that the environment variables PACKAGESITE and PACKAGEROOT need to be set so that pkg_add can fetch more updated packages. Am I right? Where should they point to?
I will use pkg_add only for big programs, and I can use the ports collectio to compile the little ones.
Many thanks.
Ramiro.
Hey friends!, am I on your e-mail black list? ;-)
It is strange that nobody has answered my question. I have been investigating further. Do you think I should download packages (not ports) from 5-stable instead from 5.3 release?
I mean, are 5-stable packages closer to an up to date ports collection?
I am waiting for a good advice before messing my ports!
Thanks.
Ramiro.
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