On Thursday 14 April 2005 12:20 pm, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Thursday, 14. April 2005 20:13, Will Andrews wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:15:13AM -0700, Matt Navarre wrote:
> > > Kpackage does this on FreeBSD 4.11 with KDE 3.4 also, did it
> > > with KDE 3.3 come to think of it. So it's not just a 5.x thing.
> >
> > kpackage has always worked slightly incorrectly on FreeBSD.  I
> > doubt anyone will fix it, especially since there's a FreeBSD
> > specific tool called Barry.
>
> Which doesn't quite do what kpackage does (or at least attempts to)
> though, for instance it cannot install or remove packages. But
> indeed, for kpackage to become actually useful on *BSD, it would need
> a dedicated (upstream) maintainer for the *BSD-pkg functionality
> (IIRC the code that's currently in there was contributed by an
> OpenBSD user).

Not only that but barry can't find /usr/ports/INDEX.db on my systems. I 
have an INDEX[-5] and then some gzip'ed backup copies before it comes 
to INDEX.db and it can't find the *.db.

Kent
-- 
Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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