On Thursday, 14. April 2005 22:51, Kent Stewart wrote: > 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.
Might be due to http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/76935. Anyway, barry also fails to compile on 5.x and is, more or less, just as unmaintained as kpackage. -- ,_, | Michael Nottebrock | [EMAIL PROTECTED] (/^ ^\) | FreeBSD - The Power to Serve | http://www.freebsd.org \u/ | K Desktop Environment on FreeBSD | http://freebsd.kde.org
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