On 12/19/11 14:39, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2011-12-19, Richard Thornton <thornton.rich...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Do a simple clean 5.0 install. One would assume any browser package in the >> packages folder would install. None do for me on sparc, but with a clean >> 4.9 install all 4.9 packages install. I am not a Unix specialist by any >> means but I do know how to type pkg_add . > > Please send a mail to ports@ detailing exactly what you are doing (what > you're typing, what PKG_PATH is set to if you're using it, the contents > of /etc/pkg.conf if you're using that) and what output you see. > > This is the first I've heard of any major problem with 5.0 release > packages on any arch, if there is a problem obviously we need to know > what went wrong so we can avoid it happening in future, but before > digging into that we need to first rule out incorrect procedure.
Don't bother, he's doing something very wrong. This is a PEBKAC diagnostic issue, not an OpenBSD issue. Just happened to have a blade100 (the machine he named) sitting here, just loaded it up, but not into production yet, so blew it away (it was at -current, of course) and did exactly what he said: * simple 5.0 install from CD (only non-default was to use ntpd) * set PKG_PATH to my local mirror * pkg_add xxxterm * pkg_add firefox36 (didn't seem to be newer ones for sparc64) * pkg_add dillo * pkg_add conkeror * pkg_add midori * pkg_add kazehakase * pkg_add links+2.2p2 * pkg_add elinks * pkg_add w3m-0.5.3 * pkg_add links FINALLY! an error! conflict with links+. Package management system worked fine :) Other than links after links+, all installed fine. Starting them all at the same time on a blade100 with only 512M RAM was not my most productive move, but they all seemed to be trying to work, until something ran out of something and X blew me back to a command prompt :) (I gotta play with some of these alternate browsers) Personally, I think he's screwing up between sparc and sparc64. He's being VERY sloppy with the platform name_s_ in his posting, so I suspect it is safe to assume he's doing that elsewhere. Nick.
