On Wednesday 16 of November 2005 04:26, James Long wrote: > After hours of head-banging over the past couple of days, > I have finally succeeded in installing EITHER > xorg-clients-6.8.2_1 OR xterm-206_1. Previously, > installing either port told me that it conflicted > with the other, in spite of having cvsupped my > ports tree twice to ensure I was getting the most > recent version of the ports, hopefully including a > fix to the chicken-and-egg problem noted in > /usr/ports/UPDATING
x11/xorg-clients port does not conflict with any version of xterm. Where do you see that? > Once I spotted an odd bit of output in the portupgrade > dialogue, I made a change to xorg-clients Makefile > which allowed everything to install. pkgdb -F afterwards > and all my dependencies are tidied up. > > May I suggest the following patch to > /usr/ports/x11/xorg-clients/Makefile: > > > --- Makefile Sun Nov 13 21:47:34 2005 > +++ foo Tue Nov 15 19:19:37 2005 > @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ > MAINTAINER= [EMAIL PROTECTED] > COMMENT= X client programs and related files from X.Org > > -RUN_DEPENDS= xterm>0:${PORTSDIR}/x11/xterm > +RUN_DEPENDS= xterm:${PORTSDIR}/x11/xterm > LIB_DEPENDS= png.5:${PORTSDIR}/graphics/png \ > Xft.2:${PORTSDIR}/x11-fonts/libXft Versions of x11/xterm port prior to xterm-206_1 do not install 'xterm' executable. The above would cause xorg-clients port to try to install xterm even if xterm-206 (for example) is alredy installed which would then fail. Dejan _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"