<div dir="ltr">Hi John,<div><br></div><div style>Thanks for that. I must have panicked a bit since I found the answer out my self "pkg info". All the packages I'd built were registered with pkg.</div><div style>
<br></div><div style>regards,</div><div style><br></div><div style>greadey</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:32 PM, John Marino <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dragonflybsd@marino.st" target="_blank">dragonflybsd@marino.st</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On 5/24/2013 13:17, Gavin Reade wrote:<br>
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Anyway enough babble, I had DFly 3.2 and upgraded to 3.4, lost my<br>
X server config, machine went dead (no virtual consoles) so I just<br>
installed a vanilla 3.4.<br>
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If you had an x86-64, it may have been the avx support that kill your packages. They all have to be rebuilt. Additionally, there seems to be an increasing number of reports of problems with pkgsrc xorg and DragonFly 3.4.<br>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">
Maybe a good idea, maybe not (thinking back to my Win95 days......).<br>
'Course, the new thing is dports. First thing I did was get the dports<br></div>
tree and install lynx. I did a make&& make install&& make clean.<div class="im"><br>
However I have been reading stuff and there is another part.....<br>
pkg??. My question is; is the general idea to use dports to<br>
build the package and then use pkg? to install it?<br>
How does pkg relate to dports? Can dports install<br>
ready made binary packages (there seems to be no dports command).<br>
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There is no "dports" command.<br>
"pkg" is what you want.<br>
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pkg is a binary package manager. Pretty much all of the packages that build have already been built for you, so you don't need to compile them. (see <a href="https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/howtos/HowToDPorts/" target="_blank">https://www.dragonflybsd.org/<u></u>docs/howtos/HowToDPorts/</a>)<br>
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pkg is also involved during the source builds. pkg is an invisible dependency of every port, so it will always be built and installed for a source build if it's not already present. You don't need to do anything special, including building it first (that happens automatically).<br>
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The "general" idea is that people should use the prebuilt packages. If they need to build from scratch to change the options, or if the prebuilt version isn't available, they can and it integrates fine with the prebuilt versions.<br>
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Does that help? It's pretty easy -- just look at "man pkg" or "pkg help" etc and it should make sense.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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John<br>
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