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 _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list [email protected] http://freebsd.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd
