On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 08:15 -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > On Wednesday 22 February 2006 21:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 21:36 -0600, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: > > > On Wednesday 22 February 2006 20:59, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > > what about the dependency then? Ignore it? What if there are > > > > "files" needed by xorg-clients? eg: libXX.so.Y and which is not > > > > present in the new xterm? > > > > > > Since you want to replace it with a newer version, why are you > > > worried about the dependencies. The newer version will take care of > > > that. Of course, if you delete xterm and don't replace it, then you > > > will have to handle the dependencies. > > > > So, 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. > > > No. It would only upgrade xterm. Xterm isn't dependent on 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.
I'm trying to upgrade xterm. But I get what you mean. > > > > > > Use Windows instead. All that takes is money. > > > > Why the sarcasm? > > > be fixed, forgiven, but not forgotten. I'm sorry for the sarcasm. No Harm done and once again. I thank you and everyone else for the help. I'm learning and I'm RTFM and I'm reading the book I bought and I'm googling so I'm not expecting spoon feeding. :-) > I hope that by this time, you've received enough information to do what > you wanted to do. > yes.. I finally found out how to do it and that one of the quirkiness of FreeBSD is to ignore it's "pkg_delete statement of -> Dependencies.. Will delete anyway" > One thought just occurred to me. What is the output from 'uname -a', > mine is: > FreeBSD pres1750.mylan.net 6.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE #0: Wed > Feb 8 08:20:10 CST 2006 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PRES1750-i386 i386 > # uname -a FreeBSD BSD6.home.net 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 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 -r 'some package'" for a package built for > "FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE". You need to have 6.0-STABLE in order to install > packages built for 6.0-STABLE. Yeah. I finally understand that. So, in actuality, BSD _was_ fetching in the correct place. Unfortunately for me, when I passed the Env variable to the shell, it wasn't at the correct FTP PATH. Which messed things up. (BSD is really a different animal. In Gentoo, there's no such thing as a "release" only "stable" or "unstable/bleeding" which we mark as either x86 or ~x86) And to get from FreeBSD-Release to FreeBSD-Stable is done through compiling ports. But I also found out that we can do it via packages. just CVSup ports, put in the correct ENV PACKAGESITE variable and then the best tip I found was to install portupgrade. Now it's just #portupgrade -vPP <packagename> and it will fetch and only fetch Binary Releases. (it's so intelligent that it will downgrade to the next latest binary which is available in the ftp site.) Thanks again. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 1.5GB RAM 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 11:37:35 up 2 days, 13:12, 4 users, load average: 1.56, 0.94, 0.63 _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
