On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 07:38:00PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> It seemed like time to update and get the new ftp-proxy. During this I > ran > >> 'pkg_delete -q /var/db/pkg/*' while updating the sources. The OpenBSD > >> build was okay, but ports are not building now. The command might have > >> been package-specific; i.e., perhaps I should have used 'port uninstall' > >> instead since I have been using 'make install' in ports.
> >Anyways, you are installing packages, not ports, because ports building > >process creates packages. > >> Probably I could begin to use packages now and things would be okay, but > >> am trying to learn how to compile things properly. This installation is > >> -current on AMD64. > >> Is there general method to make ports work again in this situation? > >You can either update your ports tree and build stuff, or use packages > >for the version of OpenBSD you are using. > > > > I did update ports and also rebuilt X. Perhaps it is a Firefox problem? > This is > the error after Firefox had installed gmake and moved to gettext: > > "Can't install gettext-0.14.5 because of conflicts (gettext-0-10-40p3)" That's not correct cut-and-paste, you obviously did this from memory. > There were no applications previous to this Firefox install, excepting those > already > in OpenBSD. No, that's a lie. The real message tells you there still is a gettext, and the version is 0.10.40p3 (there are no dashes there). You need to *update* your gettext, instead of installing the new one. > There is not a ports index to update or reindex, or the like? Maybe Firefox > is broken > for -current and I will need to use Mozilla 1.7. Not really. firefox works just fine. If you want to use ports, you will have to start to learn being a bit more careful... You didn't give us anything useful in your first email. From the most recent one, it's clear to me that somehow, something went wrong during your pkg_delete, since you still have a gettext installed, but you don't mention that. Didn't you notice it at the time ? Please go and figure out what packages you still have on your machine. Clean them up, then rebuild, if you must from ports. Or you can go the easy way and use binary packages.
