On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 09:16:45PM +0200, Andreas Maus wrote:
> Hello everbody.
> 
> I'm using OpenBSD since version 3.1 (or so) usually for servers and my
> firewalls.
> Getting my IBM X40 and I installed OpenBSD 3.9 and started to build
> the packages I need
> from /usr/ports. Everything works as expected (means without any problem ;)
> 
> But after installing xmms from /usr/ports/audio/xmms/ I discovered that 
> xmms was
> not able to play MP3 and OGG files. After some hours of searching and
> looking around
> I found a package named xmms-mp3-*(and xmms-vorbis) in
> /usr/ports/packages/i386/all/.
> 
> So I run pkg_add /usr/ports/packages/i386/all/xmms-mp3-1.2.10p6.tgz.
> 
> After this pkg_add xmms was able to play MP3 files.
> 
> All the years I believed that "make install" will do the same as a pkg_add.
> Now I am real confused ;)
> 
> Am I missing something? Is this a bug or does it work as expected?
This is expected behaviour. Since the xmms-mp3 and xmms-ogg are subpackages.
Please refer to bsd.port.mk(5) and ports(7) for more information.

> 
> Many thanks in advance.
> 
> Andreas.
Cheers,
Jasper

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