Which bsd to use and the packages to install

2006-04-22 Thread durgam ravindranath
Sir We have a Broad band connection for internet access for the users. The connection setup is ADSL Router connected to the Switch, User machines are provided with DNS and gateway as ADSL router. Now we want to install a Proxy Server in a Pentium II m/c, ie ADSL Router is connected to the Proxy s

Re: How do you tell pkg_add to just download the packages ?

2006-04-20 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:28:57 +0800 "Low Kian Seong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I come from a debian background, and in debian you can pass an > argument to apt-get to tell it to download all the packages first > without installing them first, is

Re: How to handle 'local' ports/packages?

2006-04-19 Thread Ian A. Tegebo
On Wed, Apr 05, 2006 at 10:35:09AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm happy with the package I've made, as it enables me to check what > version is installed with pkg_info, I just want it to play nicely with > other real ports! I'm after the same thing. I did come across /usr/ports/Tools/script

Re: How do you tell pkg_add to just download the packages ?

2006-04-18 Thread Duane Whitty
Low Kian Seong wrote: Dear all, I come from a debian background, and in debian you can pass an argument to apt-get to tell it to download all the packages first without installing them first, is there a similar argument that I can pass to pkg_add ( I want to use binaries ) or are there other

Re: How do you tell pkg_add to just download the packages ?

2006-04-18 Thread Kris Anderson
--- Low Kian Seong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I come from a debian background, and in debian you > can pass an argument to > apt-get to tell it to download all the packages > first without installing > them first, is there a similar argument that

How do you tell pkg_add to just download the packages ?

2006-04-18 Thread Low Kian Seong
Dear all, I come from a debian background, and in debian you can pass an argument to apt-get to tell it to download all the packages first without installing them first, is there a similar argument that I can pass to pkg_add ( I want to use binaries ) or are there other tools I can use ? Thanks

Re: How to handle 'local' ports/packages?

2006-04-10 Thread martinko
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Ok, that's fine, but how can I have a port on my system that isn't in the >> ports tree available to the world? I mean, won't anything I add to my >> local >> tree be deleted by cvsup'ing? >> >> > cvsup won't delete things you add, but I believ

Re: How to handle 'local' ports/packages?

2006-04-06 Thread Joel Hatton
Alex Zbyslaw said: > cvsup won't delete things you add, but I believe portsnap does. > Thanks, Alex. I'll have to experiment with portsnap. cheers, -- Joel Hatton -- Infrastructure Manager | Hotline: +61 7 3365 4417 AusCERT - Australia's national CERT | Fax: +61 7 3365 7031 The

Re: How to handle 'local' ports/packages?

2006-04-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Ok, that's fine, but how can I have a port on my system that isn't in the > ports tree available to the world? I mean, won't anything I add to my local > tree be deleted by cvsup'ing? Not with the default cvsup settings, no. cvsup will only delete things that were in t

Re: How to handle 'local' ports/packages?

2006-04-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, that's fine, but how can I have a port on my system that isn't in the ports tree available to the world? I mean, won't anything I add to my local tree be deleted by cvsup'ing? cvsup won't delete things you add, but I believe portsnap does. I have a whole new por

Re: How to handle 'local' ports/packages?

2006-04-06 Thread freebsd-questions
ge is built from a closed-source binary > > distribution and thus can't be properly ported, so I can't set it up > > properly. > > A port does not have to be built from source, there are several (maybe many) > closed-source packages in the ports-tree, for example: > > arc

Re: How to handle 'local' ports/packages?

2006-04-05 Thread RW
inary > distribution and thus can't be properly ported, so I can't set it up > properly. A port does not have to be built from source, there are several (maybe many) closed-source packages in the ports-tree, for example: archivers/rar mail/mulberry x11/nvidia-driver ___

Re: Build Binary Packages from Installed Ports

2006-04-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:40:02PM -0700, Jason C. Wells wrote: > The new (to me) ports tools are pretty slick. Is there a way to build a > binary package for each installed port without upgrading or rebuilding > each installed port? pkg_create -b Kris pgpp6mZi0Y3DX.pgp Description: PGP sign

Build Binary Packages from Installed Ports

2006-04-04 Thread Jason C. Wells
The new (to me) ports tools are pretty slick. Is there a way to build a binary package for each installed port without upgrading or rebuilding each installed port? As I read the man pages the only thing close to this is 'portupgrade -afp' which will give me the full set of pac

How to handle 'local' ports/packages?

2006-04-04 Thread freebsd-questions
Hi, Can anyone give me a tip on how to properly integrate a local package so that I don't get: pkg_delete: package x has no origin recorded errors? I've tried adding a line like: @comment ORIGIN:local/ to the +CONTENTS file for the package, but then portmanager complai

Re: The packages in FreeBSD

2006-03-31 Thread Kevin Kinsey
retrograd wrote: Hello! Does the package openldap with mysql backend exist or I need to compile it myself from a source? Best regards, Maxim #cd /usr/ports && make search name=openldap | grep server Port: openldap-sasl-server-2.2.30 Path: /usr/ports/net/openldap22-sasl-server Info:

Re: The packages in FreeBSD

2006-03-30 Thread Peter
--- retrograd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > Does the package openldap with mysql backend exist or I need to > compile it myself from a source? > Best regards, Maxim If I were you I would search the (openldap server) port's Makefile for "SQL Backend". ___

The packages in FreeBSD

2006-03-30 Thread retrograd
Hello! Does the package openldap with mysql backend exist or I need to compile it myself from a source? Best regards, Maxim ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send a

Re: Packages/Ports

2006-03-04 Thread Chris Hill
On Sat, 4 Mar 2006, Charlie Sorsby wrote: Is it really asking too much that software in teh packages and ports collections should agree with the manpages that come with that software? I don't think so. In fact, IMO the man page should be THE definitive documentation for any software

Packages/Ports

2006-03-04 Thread Charlie Sorsby
lly empty? Why?, I asked myself. According to the man pages, that's where it should be putting the news articles. But a search reveals that they're going to a directory called /var/spool/leafnode. Is it really asking too much that software in teh packages and ports collections shoul

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-26 Thread Ow Mun Heng
D 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > You'll see that it has "FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE" in it. > If yours has "FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE" in it. Then you can't install a > package using "pkg_add

Re: Ports/packages confusion

2006-02-24 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chandan Haldar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Will someone please point me to an explanation for why the packages in > my install sets (that I chose at the time of installation of my > FreeBSD 6.0 Release), for example the X11R6 packages, do not show up > in the installed packa

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-23 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
xorg-clients. It's required by xorg-clients. So, that brings up a question. Are you really trying to upgrade xorg and xterm was the example you used? If that's the case, my advice would have been different. > > > > What you are trying to do is update using dow

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Robert Huff
Eric Schuele writes: > > The only thing (again) unnerving is this statement. > > > > [snip] > > pkg_delete: package 'gettext-0.14.5' is required by these other packages > > and may not be deinstalled (but I'll delete it anyway): <--- *anywa

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Eric Schuele
Ow Mun Heng wrote: On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:58 -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: Ow Mun Heng wrote: In gentoo, it's a simple "emerge xterm" and all will be done automatically. (Granted, this is compile from source and not from binary packages, which I know can do "cd /usr/por

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Ow Mun Heng
her poster, "-f" will force the deinstall. > Not an option for me. Bad experience with ignoring deps. (but seems like it's the norm for BSD folks?) > >I've even tried sysinstall but that only lists xterm-203 as the package > >to install. (I suspect this is be

RE: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread fbsd_user
I am also a user of the packages. Each new release of FreeBSD has a ftp package directory that matches the release. That is where the pkg_add -r command goes to get your packages. The 4.11 release would have the words '4.11-release' in the directory name. Time passes and we now have 5

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:58 -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > In gentoo, it's a simple "emerge xterm" and all will be done > > automatically. (Granted, this is compile from source and not from binary > > packages, which I know can do &quo

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Ow Mun Heng
o, I do pkg_del -f xterm and then a pkg_add -vr xterm-206_1 and it will upgrade xorg-clients if needed? If yes, then Good. > > > > What you are trying to do is update using downloaded packages and > > > that is going to work for you. You need to upgrade those packages >

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Eric Schuele
Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi, I've googled. I've read the handbook, I've read "Absolute BSD" and still I can't understand FreeBSD Ports/Packages esp when it comes to upgrading via packages. I'm from a Linux (gentoo linux) background so I'm not a rough diamon

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Ow Mun Heng
her poster, "-f" will force the deinstall. > Not an option for me. Bad experience with ignoring deps. (but seems like it's the norm for BSD folks?) > >I've even tried sysinstall but that only lists xterm-203 as the package > >to install. (I suspect this is be

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
can't install the new one. > > > So.. How do I install it? > > > > > > $pkg_delete xterm-203 > > > pkg_delete: package 'xterm-203' is required by these other > > > packages xorg-clients-6.8.2 > > > > pkg_delete -f xterm-203 > >

RE: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Ow Mun Heng
with the deps is just un-nerving. I just want to update to the latest *binary* package and not do a source compile. These are just small packages, what happens when I want to upgrade to the latest gnome version? I rather get packages than compile. Thanks -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Ow Mun Heng wrote: Hi, I've googled. I've read the handbook, I've read "Absolute BSD" and still I can't understand FreeBSD Ports/Packages esp when it comes to upgrading via packages. I'm from a Linux (gentoo linux) background so I'm not a rough diamon

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Ow Mun Heng
x11/xterm-206_1 > > pkg_add: package 'xterm-206_1' or its older version already installed > > > > So.. How do I install it? > > > > $pkg_delete xterm-203 > > pkg_delete: package 'xterm-203' is required by these other packages > > xorg-clients-

RE: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread fbsd_user
ports collection in the install guide at www.a1poweruser.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ow Mun Heng Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 8:58 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want

Re: Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Wednesday 22 February 2006 19:58, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Hi, > > I've googled. I've read the handbook, I've read "Absolute BSD" and > still I can't understand FreeBSD Ports/Packages esp when it comes to > upgrading via packages. I'm from a Li

Newbie Alert : pkg_add and packages Q (do not want to compile)

2006-02-22 Thread Ow Mun Heng
Hi, I've googled. I've read the handbook, I've read "Absolute BSD" and still I can't understand FreeBSD Ports/Packages esp when it comes to upgrading via packages. I'm from a Linux (gentoo linux) background so I'm not a rough diamond. Problem statement. F

Ports/packages confusion

2006-02-22 Thread Chandan Haldar
Continuing to wallow in my pool of port upgrade sorrows, I'm confused on a few basic aspects of ports/packages maintenance. Looked around, but couldn't find much clarity (may be haven't found the right docs yet). Will someone please point me to an explanation for why the package

ports and packages errors

2006-01-20 Thread Joseph Vella
I keep getting errors in trying to install packages and ports. As an example when I try to get linuxpluginwrapper in ports I see it trying to fetch some items and not finding them. It seems like it trys in several places (but I'm not sure if it's just going on to the next item).

Re: Ports vs Packages

2005-12-13 Thread Chris
Jose Borquez wrote: > Nathan Vidican wrote: > >> Jose Borquez wrote: >> >>> When installing the same software using either the ports or a package >>> do they both install in the same locations? For Example installing >>> Apache from ports on one serv

Re: Ports vs Packages

2005-12-13 Thread Jose Borquez
Nathan Vidican wrote: Jose Borquez wrote: When installing the same software using either the ports or a package do they both install in the same locations? For Example installing Apache from ports on one server and installing Apache from packages on another server would still use the same

Re: Ports vs Packages

2005-12-13 Thread Nathan Vidican
Jose Borquez wrote: When installing the same software using either the ports or a package do they both install in the same locations? For Example installing Apache from ports on one server and installing Apache from packages on another server would still use the same locations for both

Re: Ports vs Packages

2005-12-13 Thread albi
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 13:17:01 -0800 Jose Borquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When installing the same software using either the ports or a > package do they both install in the same locations? For Example > installing Apache from ports on one server and installing Apache fro

Re: Ports vs Packages

2005-12-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:17:01PM -0800, Jose Borquez wrote: > When installing the same software using either the ports or a package > do they both install in the same locations? For Example installing > Apache from ports on one server and installing Apache from packages on > an

Ports vs Packages

2005-12-13 Thread Jose Borquez
When installing the same software using either the ports or a package do they both install in the same locations? For Example installing Apache from ports on one server and installing Apache from packages on another server would still use the same locations for both? Thank you in advance

Re: Purge all removed packages ?

2005-12-09 Thread Björn König
Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT schrieb: hi all. how can i purge all removed packages ? does freebsd has something like this : *dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/ {print $2}' | xargs dpkg --purge *??? (which works on debian!) any suggestion ? This is not necessary because if you install with "pkg_add -

Re: Purge all removed packages ?

2005-12-09 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 09 December 2005 04:39 am, Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT wrote: > hi all. > how can i purge all removed packages ? > does freebsd has something like this : *dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/ {print > $2}' | xargs dpkg --purge *??? (which works on debian!) > any suggestion ? All you

Re: Purge all removed packages ?

2005-12-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT wrote: how can i purge all removed packages ? does freebsd has something like this : *dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/ {print $2}' | xargs dpkg --purge *??? (which works on debian!) The FreeBSD package system doesn't really have the concept of a special command to re

Re: Purge all removed packages ?

2005-12-09 Thread Michael Lednev
On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 18:55:14 +0300, Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You may also find portsclean (part of portupgrade) and sysutils/pkg_cutleaves useful in trimming unneeded files. and rm -rf /usr/local/* will work too :) -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www

Re: Purge all removed packages ?

2005-12-09 Thread Robert Huff
You may also find portsclean (part of portupgrade) and sysutils/pkg_cutleaves useful in trimming unneeded files. Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: Purge all removed packages ?

2005-12-09 Thread Peter Cranmer
m: "Pietro Cerutti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "FreeBSD" Sent: Friday, December 09, 2005 1:15 PM Subject: Re: Purge all removed packages ? On 12/9/05, Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi Pie

Re: Purge all removed packages ?

2005-12-09 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On 12/9/05, Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hi Pietro, Hi! > do i need to focus on anything like above apt remove and apt remove --purge > ? > > or pkg_delete deletes everything? and leaves nothing behing ? pkg_delete also deletes configuration files, alerting you when a

Re: Purge all removed packages ?

2005-12-09 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On 12/9/05, Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all. Hi > how can i purge all removed packages ? AFAIK, pkg_delete removes all files installed by a package, so maybe I misunderstood your question. What's the difference between "purge" and "remove

Purge all removed packages ?

2005-12-09 Thread Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT
hi all. how can i purge all removed packages ? does freebsd has something like this : *dpkg -l | awk '/^rc/ {print $2}' | xargs dpkg --purge *??? (which works on debian!) any suggestion ? Regards. Bye ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: dealing with duplicate packages

2005-12-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 11:07:38PM -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote: > People, > > I was just looking at my package database, and it seems that I have > some dups installed thanks to some ports I've installed. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ alias pkg_dups > alias pkg_dups='pkg_info | sort | sed -e '\''

dealing with duplicate packages

2005-12-03 Thread Michael P. Soulier
People, I was just looking at my package database, and it seems that I have some dups installed thanks to some ports I've installed. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ alias pkg_dups alias pkg_dups='pkg_info | sort | sed -e '\''s/-[0-9].*$//'\'' | uniq -c | grep -v '\''^[[:space:]]*1'\''' [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]

Re: Removing packages

2005-12-03 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Fri Dec 02, 2005 09:09PM, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Friday 02 December 2005 05:16 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: > > > salamander# pkg_info |grep -i "openoffice" > > openoffice.org-2.0.0_1 > > > salamander# cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-1.1 > > Should be: > > salamander# cd /usr/ports/edito

Re: Removing packages

2005-12-02 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Friday 02 December 2005 05:16 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote: > salamander# pkg_info |grep -i "openoffice" > openoffice.org-2.0.0_1 > salamander# cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-1.1 Should be: salamander# cd /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-2.0 since pkg_info says you have OOo 2.0 installed,

Re: Removing packages

2005-12-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 06:16:25PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: > On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 23:57:48 +0100 > albi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 17:51:16 -0500 > > Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I have OpenOffice 1

Re: Removing packages

2005-12-02 Thread Trey Sizemore
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 23:57:48 +0100 albi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 17:51:16 -0500 > Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have OpenOffice 1.1.3 installed previously from packages. I have > > recently installed OpenOffice 2

Re: Removing packages

2005-12-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 05:51:16PM -0500, Trey Sizemore wrote: > I have OpenOffice 1.1.3 installed previously from packages. I have > recently installed OpenOffice 2.0 from ports. How do I go about: > > 1- removing the 1.1.3 package install - I know to use pkg_delete, but > can

Re: Removing packages

2005-12-02 Thread albi
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 17:51:16 -0500 Trey Sizemore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have OpenOffice 1.1.3 installed previously from packages. I have > recently installed OpenOffice 2.0 from ports. How do I go about: > > 1- removing the 1.1.3 package install - I know to use pkg_d

Removing packages

2005-12-02 Thread Trey Sizemore
I have OpenOffice 1.1.3 installed previously from packages. I have recently installed OpenOffice 2.0 from ports. How do I go about: 1- removing the 1.1.3 package install - I know to use pkg_delete, but can't seem to find the correct package name. 2- having 2.0 show up in my KDE men

Re: upgrading all installed packages problem.

2005-12-02 Thread Kent Stewart
On Friday 02 December 2005 03:51 am, Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT wrote: > hi all. > i tried to run #portupgrade -arR but got the error below: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] portupgrade -arR > [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... - 328 > packages found (-7 +128) > (...)/usr/loca

upgrading all installed packages problem.

2005-12-02 Thread Mehmet Fatih AKBULUT
hi all. i tried to run #portupgrade -arR but got the error below: [EMAIL PROTECTED] portupgrade -arR [Updating the pkgdb in /var/db/pkg ... - 328 packages found (-7 +128) (...)/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/pkgdb.rb:466: [BUG] Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-freebsd5] Abort

Re: uninstalling packages...

2005-11-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 03:07:40PM +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Javier Matos wrote: > > >Hello, I want information about uninstallation of packages. I know how to > >perform that kind of actions but I really want to know if something like > >pkg_add "a_package&qu

Re: uninstalling packages...

2005-11-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Javier Matos wrote: Hello, I want information about uninstallation of packages. I know how to perform that kind of actions but I really want to know if something like pkg_add "a_package" and then pkg_delete "a_package" really delete ALL FILES installed with pkg_add comman

Re: uninstalling packages...

2005-11-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Javier Matos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, I want information about uninstallation of packages. I know how to > perform that kind of actions but I really want to know if something like > pkg_add "a_package" and then pkg_delete "a_package&qu

uninstalling packages...

2005-11-21 Thread Javier Matos
Hello, I want information about uninstallation of packages. I know how to perform that kind of actions but I really want to know if something like pkg_add "a_package" and then pkg_delete "a_package" really delete ALL FILES installed

Re: Corrupt Packages

2005-11-11 Thread Peter Clutton
On 11/11/05, sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am upgrading my applications using portupgrade and many of the builds > are reporting that 'the package info for package 'insert package name > here' is corrupt'. > > Any suggestions on how to correct these problems? I'm not sure, the only thing I c

Corrupt Packages

2005-11-11 Thread sean
I am upgrading my applications using portupgrade and many of the builds are reporting that 'the package info for package 'insert package name here' is corrupt'. Any suggestions on how to correct these problems? Thanks

Re: Adding Packages

2005-11-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 12:40:10PM -0600, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > Greeting All, > > I want to add a Samba Server from the pkg_add command on my FreeBSD 4.11 > but another specialized application has installed gettext-0.13.1_1 and > the /stand/sysinstall says that it fails the dependency for g

Adding Packages

2005-11-05 Thread Lonnie Cumberland
Greeting All, I want to add a Samba Server from the pkg_add command on my FreeBSD 4.11 but another specialized application has installed gettext-0.13.1_1 and the /stand/sysinstall says that it fails the dependency for gettext. How can I install a package from a freebsd ftp site and tell it to

Re: OPen Office 2.0 via packages

2005-11-04 Thread Glyn Millington
"Andrew P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Just try to pkg_add it. OO doesn't require Java to run, > only to build. Brilliant!! This (about Java) was what I needed to know. > There are some run-dependencies, you can see them here: > http://www.freshports.org/editors/openoffice.org-2.0/ Sor

Re: OPen Office 2.0 via packages

2005-11-04 Thread Andrew P.
e hard drive is too small - just > enough spare space for the compiling. > > Is it possible to do this via packages? Can anyone give me pointers as > to what packages I need, what bits of Java are necessary for a > pre-compiled package? Is it possible to do this via packages

OPen Office 2.0 via packages

2005-11-04 Thread Glyn Millington
this via packages? Can anyone give me pointers as to what packages I need, what bits of Java are necessary for a pre-compiled package? Is it possible to do this via packages at all? Thanks in advance atb Glyn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: packages for older 4.x systems

2005-10-27 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 07:36:26PM +0400, Alex Kapranoff wrote: > Hello! > > I'm trying to install cvsup on an older system: 4.11-RELEASE-p3. > > `pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui' fails so I downloaded this file manually: > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386

packages for older 4.x systems

2005-10-27 Thread Alex Kapranoff
Hello! I'm trying to install cvsup on an older system: 4.11-RELEASE-p3. `pkg_add -r cvsup-without-gui' fails so I downloaded this file manually: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/net/cvsup-without-gui-16.1h_2.tgz pkg_add fails too: pkg_add: read_plist: b

Re: What packages can I deinstall?

2005-10-25 Thread Chris
Pat Maddox wrote: Basically I'd like to clear out any unused packages. Is it safe to just run on pkg_deinstall -n on any package I don't recognize, and if it isn't required as a dependency for another package go ahead and delete it? Check out portmanager, specifica

Re: What packages can I deinstall?

2005-10-25 Thread Micah
Pat Maddox wrote: I've got a bunch of packages installed on my machine and I'd like to know if I can deinstall any of them. I know what a lot of them do, and know what will happen if I deinstall them. Others, I'm not really sure. For example I've got a package

Re: What packages can I deinstall?

2005-10-25 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 12:24:25PM -0600, Pat Maddox wrote: > I've got a bunch of packages installed on my machine and I'd like to > know if I can deinstall any of them. I know what a lot of them do, > and know what will happen if I deinstall them. Others, I'm not rea

What packages can I deinstall?

2005-10-25 Thread Pat Maddox
I've got a bunch of packages installed on my machine and I'd like to know if I can deinstall any of them. I know what a lot of them do, and know what will happen if I deinstall them. Others, I'm not really sure. For example I've got a package named cclient (http://www

Re: Problems with Tor, SSH packages

2005-10-02 Thread Alistar Erlas
it happens *Every time* i try to start these two programs. If it was a hardware program it seems it would be more random than that. The problems also started *after* i upgraded to the latest packages from 5-stable. Previously they worked fine. > > > > > > > > > I

Re: Problems with Tor, SSH packages

2005-10-02 Thread Will Maier
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 02:34:43PM -0700, Alistar Erlas wrote: > I also noticed that there is no screen utility in the > stable packages either. IIRC, there is no screen *package* because it fails to build correctly in certain conditions (something about a loop). Use the ports tree inste

Re: Problems with Tor, SSH packages

2005-10-02 Thread Alistar Erlas
I have seen similar behaviour with SSH, where > if > I also get a segmentation fault when I attempt to > start it. > > ssh -l myaccount localhost > Segmentation fault > > > I also noticed that there is no screen utility in > the > stable packages either. >

Re: Problems with Tor, SSH packages

2005-10-02 Thread Glenn Dawson
hings that crash with segfaults it's usually a good indicator that you might have some hardware problems. > > > I also noticed that there is no screen utility in > the > stable packages either. Screen is in /usr/ports/misc/screen -Glenn > > Any help with these issues

Re: Problems with Tor, SSH packages

2005-10-02 Thread Alistar Erlas
; > Also, I have seen similar behaviour with SSH, where > if > I also get a segmentation fault when I attempt to > start it. > > ssh -l myaccount localhost > Segmentation fault > > > I also noticed that there is no screen utili

Problems with Tor, SSH packages

2005-10-02 Thread Alistar Erlas
. Also, I have seen similar behaviour with SSH, where if I also get a segmentation fault when I attempt to start it. ssh -l myaccount localhost Segmentation fault I also noticed that there is no screen utility in the stable packages either. Any help with these issues is greatly appreciated,

Re: Question about packages

2005-09-29 Thread Andrew P.
On 9/30/05, Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 29, 2005, at 4:38 PM, Milscvaer wrote: > > How often are the binary packages in 5-stable for instance > > rebuilt to the latest version? It is pretty critical > > to keep these updated constantly, preferabl

Re: Question about packages

2005-09-29 Thread Milscvaer
: > > How often are the binary packages in 5-stable for > instance > > rebuilt to the latest version? It is pretty > critical > > to keep these updated constantly, preferably every > > day, to get the latest security fixes in a new > version > > of a package. I

Re: Question about packages

2005-09-29 Thread Charles Swiger
On Sep 29, 2005, at 4:38 PM, Milscvaer wrote: How often are the binary packages in 5-stable for instance rebuilt to the latest version? It is pretty critical to keep these updated constantly, preferably every day, to get the latest security fixes in a new version of a package. I noticed that

Question about packages

2005-09-29 Thread Milscvaer
Hello, I have question about packages. I would like to upgrade some packages on my FreeBSD 5.4 system to the latest versions avialable in ports, but I would like to upgrade using binary packages and not compile them from ports (using portupgrade -PP -R package). How often are the binary packages

Re: Questions regarding FreeBSD packages and dependancies

2005-09-27 Thread RW
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 17:15, RW wrote: > I don't use packages much, but I think it's the case that a package won't > install if it was built against a dependency that is newer that the one you > have installed. > > Note GTK1 and GTK2 are separate and can co-

Re: Questions regarding FreeBSD packages and dependancies

2005-09-27 Thread RW
ms may continue to use them, and have new > programs installed from stable use the new version? I don't use packages much, but I think it's the case that a package won't install if it was built against a dependency that is newer that the one you have installed. Note GTK1

Questions regarding FreeBSD packages and dependancies

2005-09-27 Thread Milscvaer
When I upgrade a package, say Gaim, and if I would also like all of its library dependancies to be upgraded, if new versions of certian libraries, such as Gtk are installed, will the old versions of Gtk remain in place and older programs that had been using the older version will continue to use

Re: Regarding packages and ports, up to dateness

2005-09-18 Thread Milscvaer
Thank you for your help answering these questions regarding these issues. Is it necessary to keep ports collection up to date in order to use portupgrade to get the latest packages? Also, what determiines where portupgrade will download packages from, and what whether it will download from

Re: Regarding packages and ports, up to dateness

2005-09-17 Thread Bob Johnson
On 9/17/05, Milscvaer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > However, there is room for improvement. One of the > major issues I have is with the out of date binary > packages available for the latest stable release > (5.4). The packages distributed with the release ar

Regarding packages and ports, up to dateness

2005-09-17 Thread Milscvaer
hopefully FreeBSD will to work to make sure that hardware compatability is improved and maintained. However, there is room for improvement. One of the major issues I have is with the out of date binary packages available for the latest stable release (5.4). Yes, I know that there are much more up

Re: making packages

2005-09-17 Thread freebsd-questions
front-end tool, such as xxx ...". In your situation, however, I'd recommend a) using portupgrade -pf for already-installed packages or b) portinstall -p and then pkg_deinstall, for packages you don't wish to install locally. I've noticed also (accidentally, when I forgot

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