a question about the pkg_add and "make install clean"

[well sun]

   thanks your answers. I use the ports-supfile and stable-supfile under
   /usr/share/examples/cvsup to do upgrade.

   I think I understand what the difference between the pkg_add and "make
   install".

   That is if I want to install the latest version, I should use the
   "make install" or get the xxx.tbz from the freebsd-current directory.
   Is it correct?

   Could I make the default directory from 5.3-release to 6.0-current by
   change one configuration file? If I want to override the default
   fetching site of "pkg_add" command by some faster sites, how can I do?

   >From: Chris <racerx at makeworld.com>
   >Reply-To: racerx at makeworld.com
   >To: Abu Khaled <khaled.abu at gmail.com>
   >CC: well sun <sunwell at hotmail.com>, freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
   >Subject: Re: a question about the pkg_add and "make install clean"
   >Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:38:56 -0600
   >
   >Abu Khaled wrote:
   >>On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 01:12:10 +0000, well sun <sunwell at hotmail.com>
   >>wrote:
   >>
   >>>       I had install the freebsd5.3 with custom setup and only
   >>>install
   >>>   the source code and base, not install xorg and perl. Then I use
   >>>cvsup
   >>>   to upgrade stable source code and current ports. After doing
   >>>these, I
   >>>   want to install the kde3 and gnome2. But I found when I use the
   >>>   pkg_add command, freebsd will go to the directory under
   >>>"5.3-release",
   >>>   it is older than the installation using "make install clean"
   >>>command.
   >>>   For example, when I use pkg_add xorg, it will install 6.7
   >>>version.
   >>>   When I use "make install clean", it will install 6.8.2 version.
   >>>How
   >>>   can I make them to install same versions?  Another question is,
   >>>when I
   >>>   install the xorg-clients, it give me a error message that
   >>>"libc.so.6"
   >>>   not found, and many reference to *GL.so not found, how can I
   >>>fix it? I
   >>>   had get the latest X11R7-src{1,2,3}.tar.bz2.
   >>>
   >>
   >>
   >>My guess would be that you did not build/install world/kernel. So
   >>the
   >>package system still defaults to your 5.3 release branch. The
   >>sources/ports you updated must be for the development brach
   >>FreeBSD-5.X, also known as FreeBSD 5-STABLE "RELENG 5"
   >>
   >>Check your CVSUP configuration (supfile).
   >>if default tag=RELENG_5 then you are tracking 5.4 STABLE and you
   >>need
   >>to buildworld/kernel and install (check the handbook).
   >>
   >>If you don't whant to buildworld/kernel then change "tag=RELENG_5"
   >>to
   >>"tag=RELENG_5_3", cvsup again and your sources/ports well be the
   >>same
   >>as PACKAGES (the older ones)
   >>
   >
   >This is flat out wrong. The cvsup of the src tree and the ports tree
   >are seperate. You would use 2 seperate cvs files.
   >
   >Now, you "could" combine them I suppose (I dont know out right - I
   >have not done this. If you cvsup the ports tree (and it sounds like
   >you may have, by doing so, you have pulled in a "newer" tree of the
   >ports. Thus, a make install would get you the newest installs
   >(pending on when you cvsuped the ports tree) of those programs.
   >
   >Using pkg_add is simply going out to the FBSD site and installing
   >the binary (pre compiled) versions that were released when the OS
   >was released.
   >
   >The proper tag for getting the latest ports tree under 5.3-RELEASE
   >would be this in the ports-supfile:
   >
   >*default release=cvs tag=.
   >
   >Remeber, as long as you keep your ports tree up to date, the
   >packages will always be outdated.
   >
   >You can find all this out by simply reading the handbook online.
   >
   >Please try to know what your talking about before confusing a
   >newbie.
   >
   >--
   >Best regards,
   >Chris
   >
   >Virtue is its own punishment.
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