On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 12:31 PM, mailinglist <mailingl...@ucwv.edu> wrote:
> I hada VM running an older installation of FreeBSD 7.2. I recently got > back to it and tried to install Cacti from the ports collection. I cvsup'd > in an up-to-date ports collection, and did the usual "make, make install" > for Cacti. During the "make install" process a dependency failed to build. > I believe it was xcb-utils that failed to build because XCB was at version > 1.2 and needed to be at 1.4. I couldn't get the issue resolved no matter > what I tried. I ended up giving up.....later on I went through the > "freebsd-update" process and upgraded to a newer version of 7.2. After that > Cacti and all dependencies built and installed successfully. Was XCB > upgraded when I did the freebsd-update process? Or what? I'm just trying > to find out what happened..... Thanks! > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > You might want to try a tool like portmaster or portupgrade to manage these dependency and package backup process. -- Adam Vande More _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
