On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 02:23:06PM +0200, Xavier de Labouret wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am new to NetBSD (and even to BSD), and i think need some clarification
> on binary packages. Could you help me?
> 
> 1) I cant install mozilla on 1.6RC1 with pkg_add, for the archive is not
> available on ftp.netbsd.org. (i.e, no
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/packages/1.6/i386/All/mozilla*.tgz).
> 
> Why is it not there? A compilation problem prevents to make it available?
> Or is the package abandoned? Better, is there a web page to track this
> status (compile breaks/abandoned/...) for a given package (or all
> packages)?

Don't know. Maybe it didn't compile at the time. Some of these packages are
old.

> 
> I had the same problem with the png package, but downloading the 1.5
> binary package was OK. The trouble with mozilla is that i cant find it on
> ftp://[...]/1.5/i386/All/.

ha, maybe it's because of the security issue in png. the insecure png package,
and the ones which require png, have been removed, probably.

> 
> 2) Furthermore, i do not know if there is a way to upgrade an installed
> binary package to a new version, in a way similar to apt-get on Debian.
> Must i get the source and compile it? Or will pkg_add let me install the
> newer version even if an older version is already installed?

No, but you can pkg_delete and then pkg_add.
But it's often easier to upgrade from sources: make update will deinstall the
package, and recursively the ones which depends on it, then rebuild and
reinstall the package, then rebuild and reinstall the ones which were
deinstalled recursively.

> 
> 3) A last question: will openoffice be available for NetBSD 1.6?

It's in pkgsrc. The binary may not be there for the same reason as
mozilla.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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