I a clean 5.0 install on my sun blade today; I setup the ports folder as the documentation says to do, and I setup my PKG_PATH variable using a Chicago mirror; trying to add via the command pkg_add -i gnome-session yields immediate errors looking for a c library level 60 or 61, not sure which, but it needs it I am sure to install the package. I used the vanillia CD straight off the openbsd website for sparc64.
Not sure what your suggestions will be, but this is not what the docs claim will be the case. On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Richard Thornton < [email protected]> wrote: > I used the advice from the blog called gab software. Perhaps he was > wrong. I am willing to reinstall. I have no personal data to lose on > this old box. > > > > Nick Holland <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On 12/19/11 14:39, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2011-12-19, Richard Thornton <[email protected]> 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.
