Package from the packages-5.1-release directory won't install on a 5.1 system

2004-01-23 Thread Francis Litterio 
I have a stock 5.1 release system, but when I try to install the package
amsn-0.71_1.tbz, which I downloaded from

ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.1-release/All/amsn-0.71_1.tbz

pkg_add says it needs version tcl-8.4.3,1 of tcl but my 5.1 system has
tcl version 8.3.5_2 installed.  I have not changed my tcl installation
since I installed 5.1, so that's the tcl that comes with 5.1.

Shouldn't packages built for 5.1-release install cleanly on a stock
5.1 system?
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Re: Package from the packages-5.1-release directory won't install on a 5.1 system

2004-01-23 Thread Francis Litterio 
Kris Kennaway wrote:

 On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 01:22:38PM -0500, Francis Litterio wrote:

 I have a stock 5.1 release system, but when I try to install the package
 amsn-0.71_1.tbz, which I downloaded from
 
 ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.1-release/All/amsn-0.71_1.tbz
 
 pkg_add says it needs version tcl-8.4.3,1 of tcl but my 5.1 system has
 tcl version 8.3.5_2 installed.  I have not changed my tcl installation
 since I installed 5.1, so that's the tcl that comes with 5.1.

 That's the version of tcl 8.3 that comes with 5.1.  The version of tcl
 8.4 that comes with 5.1 is 8.4.3,1.  They are different packages.

Thanks for replying.

In what sense does tcl 8.4 come with 5.1 if it is not installed when I
install _everything_ from the 5.1 install CD?

This is what confuses me: How can tcl 8.4.3,1 be a 5.1 package if it
depends on packages that are not installed with the 5.1 release?  Sure,
any package can be a 5.1 package as long as I upgrade enough other
packages.

Aren't packages bound to a given base system version precisely to avoid
this kind of upgrade creep?
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pkg_fetch argument syntax question

2004-01-23 Thread Francis Litterio 
The man page for pkg_fetch says this:

 The following command line arguments are supported:

 pkgname Specify a full pkgname, a pkgname without version
 followed by an @, or a full URI.

But it doesn't say what appending a '@' to the package name means.  Some
experimentation doesn't reveal any difference.

Anyone know what the '@' does?

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