Report problems here or elsewhere?

2014-06-15 Thread Margaret
Hello all. I was directed to this list as a place to report problems with ports. But the general information at http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports makes me wonder whether I was misdirected and should be reporting them elsewhere. Could someone advise? Thanks. Margaret

xfce4 build fails in 10.2 RELEASE: FNF

2016-03-14 Thread Margaret
Since as yet xfce4 doesn't exist as a package, I tried to build xfce4 under 10.2 RELEASE using only defaults. But the build fails in x11-toolkits because printbackend-cups.so is not found. -files.so and -lpr.so exist, but -cups.so does not That happened AFTER it spent 4.5 hours downloading a

Re: xfce4 build fails in 10.2 RELEASE: FNF

2016-03-14 Thread Margaret
On Mon, 14 Mar 2016 08:36:16 -0400, I wrote: >Since as yet xfce4 doesn't exist as a package I was wrong - it does, and works very nicely too. I'm just too used to version numbers on pkgs, so I looked for xfce4. (But there is a missing file in the port, and the kitchen-sink model really is a

Re: Checking port option descriptions

2016-09-17 Thread Margaret
[Default] On Sat, 17 Sep 2016 09:47:10 +0100, Mike Clarke wrote: >For cases where one line comments won't suffice how about providing the >facility >to include an extra text file in a port (perhaps "pkg-options") containing >notes about why some particular options

Re: Pkg doesn't care about conflict

2016-09-27 Thread Margaret
On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:02:46 +0200, Mathieu Arnold wrote: >Le 26/09/2016 à 21:42, scratch65...@att.net a écrit : >> I have the PHP 7.0 package installed under 10.2. Wanting to >> install the pecl-imagick port, I called pkg search, which >> returned a ref. I only caught the

Re: Pkg doesn't care about conflict

2016-09-27 Thread Margaret
[Default] On Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:40:33 +0200, Miroslav Lachman <000.f...@quip.cz> wrote: >scratch65...@att.net wrote on 09/26/2016 21:42: >> I have the PHP 7.0 package installed under 10.2. Wanting to >> install the pecl-imagick port, I called pkg search, which >> returned a ref. I only caught