On Wednesday 16 March 2005 07:25 pm, Gerry Freymann wrote: > I just upgraded from FreeBSD 4.9R to 4.11R (cvsup'd sources and > ports, buildworld, buildkernel, etc). > > Then I went to work on upgrading my ports. Portupgrade and some > manual intervention did a fairly decent job. > > I used the "ports" which compiled mostly everything (Xfree-4 went > fine too) but it never compiles KDE so I fall-back to using > "packages" for those. > > But I'm confused as to why the packages seem to be older versions > than what's in the ports? A fair bit of the packages required for KDE > spit out notices they were expecting version B of a dependency but I > have version A (the latest) > > I can't update via ports: > > arts-1.3.2,1 > gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0 > kdemultimedia-mpeglib_artsplug-3.3.2 > koffice-1.3.5_1,1 > > and if I try to install via package, I get the versions above, which > are now considered "old" and I'm being told they need to be updated > when I run pkg_version > > I get varying errors when trying to compile via ports, of which > something about libjpeg seems to be common. > > Do I need to cvsup again and try the above 4 programs again? or do I > need to capture the text where they bomb and submit to the ports' > responsible person? > > Thanks... > -gerry
Gerry, give portmanager a try. It should straighten out the dependencies for you and rebuild everthing via ports. This is all you need do: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanger make install clean rehash portmanager -u -Mike _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"