openoffice package install fails on gamin dependency - KDE needs fam

[Oliver Iberien]

Thanks very much. I just upgraded to KDE 3.5, which took about two days of 
compiling, while in complete ignorance of this issue. It now relies on fam. 
So it looks like fam for me.

I am going to go ahead with compiling. Your method sounds reasonable but my 
scant knowledge of FreeBSD makes me want to be as conservative as possible.

I have amended make.conf with a WITH_FAM_SYSTEM=fam line and put a line in 
pkgtools.conf 

MAKE_ARGS = {
        '*' => 'WITH_FAM_SYSTEM=fam',
        'editors/openoffice.org-*' => '-DWITHOUT_MOZILLA LOCALIZED_LANG=en-US'

Make clean in the openoffice.org-2.0 ports folder currently yields
===>  Cleaning for fam-2.6.9_6

So hopefully after this monster compiles, I will get no gamin-related error 
messages. Hopefully?

Oliver


On Monday 20 March 2006 18:14, you wrote:
> Gamin and Fam are "interchangeable" in that they do the same thing.
> Gamin is supposed to be the next generation replacement for fam, but
> some have said that gamin is not yet ready for production.... You should
> set WITH_FAM_SYSTEM= either gamin or fam in your make.conf depending on
> which you decide to permanently use.
>
> If you decide to switch to gamin, pkg_delete fam, then install gamin.
> Run pkgdb -F to change the dependency from fam to gamin on all the ports
> you listed above.  Or just rebuild all the ports that you listed above.
>
> Or if you decide to stick with fam, see if you can force the install of
> the openoffice package despite the gamin dependency.  Then run pkgdb -F
> and point openoffice's gamin dependency to fam.
>
> HTH,
> Micah