qupzilla-qt5 pkg: bad dependency (was: otter-browser...)

2017-06-06 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
same problem with qupzilla-qt5: full log of install, attempted use: udo pkg install qupzilla-qt5 < Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up to date. All repositories are up to date. pkg: scummvm-tools has a missing dependen

otter-browser pkg: bad dependency

2017-06-06 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
i just installed binary pkg: otter-browser. it won't run because libQt5Core (also installed from binary pkg) lacks the version it was build with. pkg is all up to date. full log of install, attempted use, attempted update: sudo pkg install otter-browser Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...

Re: Is pkg quarterly really needed?

2017-04-19 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Thu, Apr 20, 2017, at 06:22 AM, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 04:37:05PM -0400, scratch65...@att.net wrote: > > (Right now, it's quite hard to resist the paranoid suspicion that > > maybe this crazy, anti-real-user behavior is a subtle way to kill > > freebsd altogether by drivin

Re: Is pkg quarterly really needed?

2017-04-19 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Tue, Apr 18, 2017, at 02:54 PM, qjail1 wrote: > I maintain a port and I have users complaining that the pkg system takes > many months before the updated version of my port shows up in the pkg > system. > > My response is I tell them to change a line in their > /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf file > f

Re: ports expiring soon due to Google Code site removal

2017-03-27 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017, at 04:12 PM, Mark Linimon wrote: > As of 20170324 there are still 175 ports that are marked deprecated and > broken due to the Google Code site having gone away. These are due to > expire on 20170430. Please consider this a "last call" to find a current > mastersite for thes

Re: portmaster installation trampling on my binary packages???

2017-03-19 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
On Sun, Mar 19, 2017, at 07:54 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > I think you need to understand the relationship between packages and > ports. First and foremost, they are the same thing. When you build a > port you are actually creating a package by processing the source > files. This usually, but not a

portmaster installation trampling on my binary packages???

2017-03-19 Thread Ethan Grammatikidis
Hi. I'm quite new to FreeBSD. I'm getting a system up & running slowly, working around my chronic fatigue. Today I'm updating for the first time. Base system and pkg update appeared to go well. I haven't rebooted, wanting to get everything done before reboot. https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handboo