[Ukfreebsd] Error code 1

[Spadge Fromley]

It's funny. I compile everything myself in FreeBSD. Won't even
consider packages except to fix some dependency that won't compile.

And yet I compile nothing ever in kubuntu. Well, except choqok, which
has some of the worst package support ever.

-- 
Eliot

On 1 Jun 2012, at 09:54, "Robert N. M. Watson" <rwatson at freebsd.org> wrote:

>
> On 1 Jun 2012, at 09:40, Christopher Dawkins wrote:
>
>> I had just this problem three weeks ago, and spent a fortnight recompiling and recompiling (and recompiling). My machine takes nine hours to do OpenOffice, and then there's KDE. I used portmaster when portupgrade didn't work and vice versa: I frequently had to dive into the relevant port and make deinstall and reinstall, I cleaned randomly, I fought pkg_delete and pkgdb -F. The most annoying things were the many times portupgrade (or master) stopped saying 'xx-0-3 cannot be installed because xx-0-2 is in the same place' and I had to shout at it "You know what's needed, you've just told me what to do, I'm providing the electricity, why can't you do it yourself you lazy machine?".
>
> The good news is that pkgng (http://wiki.freebsd.org/pkgng) should make living simply on pre-compiled binary packages much easier in the near future. It's in testing now and I've had pretty good experiences with it thus far. It will take a bit for port maintainers to get used to binary packages really being a first-class citizen, I suspect, but a dramatic improvement from most perspectives even before that happens.
>
> Robert
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