Thanks to you both for responding. I am confident that I will get this working. I appreciate it.
However, my primary concern was with the pkg_del and pkg_add command, and not so much my concern with Horde. Like I stated in my initial thread, the -F switch does not seem to work as it should. Is it broken, or am I doing something wrong? I can't seem to remove a package no matter what I do if it is a dependency of another installed package. I likewise am not able to force an install if there dependecies are not present, or they don't quite jibe (details below). I find it hard to believe it is broken, so I am wondering if I am just doing something wrong here... Thanks. Chris wrote: >Hello > >I have installed openbsd 3.8. I am trying to make an email server with >the Horde Interface. > >I installed all necessary packages as binaries with the pkg_add >utility. When I finally got Horde up and and running, I found that php5 >was a dependency for horde-3.0.4. The horde docs and the test.php file >state very clearly that php5 is experimental, and is not recommended. >Furthermore, many of the features I need (like mysql support) were not >compiled in the binary. > >So I tried to uninstall all the php5 packages that were installed as >dependencies and replace them with php4. I found the the pkg_delete -F >command would not work. It seemed to completely ignore the -F flag. >For example "pkg_delete -F baddepend php5-mcrypt-5.0.4" would complain >that horde and php5 must be uninstalled as well. I tried all the >arguments for the -F flag, and finally used the dependencies option, >which worked as one might expect -- it removed the package and all of >its dependencies. > >So, I figured I would try it from the other side. I compiled php4 with >ports. I made my own make file to include the options that horde and I >wanted. After it was installed, I tried to install horde. It would not >let me, because php5 was a dependency. So I tried the -F flag. Again, >this did not work: > > # pkg_add -F conflicts horde-3.0.4.tgz > Can't install php5-core-5.0.4p0 because of conflicts (php4-core-4.4.0p0) > /usr/sbin/pkg_add: php5-core-5.0.4p0:Fatal error > >I thought that the -F flag would force the install despite the fact that >a conflicting package was found. It did not. > >So, either this is broken, or I am missing something here... > >How can I get Horde3 installed without using php5? I prefer not to have >to resort to installing from the tarball, as I like the installation db >to be accurate, and I want to stay within the audited code. > >Any suggestions? > >Thanks. > >Chris
