Bug 163285

Summary:	when installing gnome2-lite not all dependent packages are installed
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	eb30750
Component:	amd64	Assignee:	Mark Linimon <linimon>
Status:	Closed Overcome By Events
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description eb30750 2011-12-14 15:40:11 UTC

When upgrading I delete all packages then upgrade followed by installing one pacakage; pkg_add gnome2-lite -r.  This installs many dependent packages but it does not install xorg nor gdm.  This has been the case since 7.1 and it was again when I upgraded from 8.2 to 9.0-RC3 earlier this week.  

I do not use FreeBSD on a regular basis though I would like too.  Therefore, at each update I am a little rusty in getting my system back to where it was before the upgrade.  This time I did remember that it was necessary install pkg_add xorg -r but the first time around I forgot about gdm.  Thus my system would not launch gnome.  Maybe all the dependencies for gnome2 works but not for gnome2-lite.

If all the dependencies worked as they should then upgrading is a six step process to restore the new OS and desktop with no time required to debug.

pkg_delete -a
freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.0-RC3
freebsd-update install
pkg_add gnome2-lite -r
shutdown -r now
freebsd-update install

From there I do add some other packages such as Firefox, etc.  It was also necessary to manually install portsupgrade as well.

How-To-Repeat: Every upgrade that I have performed since 7.1

Comment 1 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer

2017-12-31 08:00:40 UTC

For bugs matching the following criteria:

Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01

Reset to default assignee and clear in-progress tags.

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Comment 2 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2018-05-31 15:39:38 UTC

Unfortunately this PR was never addressed before these versions of FreeBSD went out of support.  Sorry.

If this is still a problem, please open a new PR.  Thanks.