Encountered a problem with the pkgsrc branch

zlxs

Hello everyone, I am not good at English, this is translated by translation software. I have some problems. 1. Why does pkgsrc have so many branches? 2. The machine is Thinkpad X60, i386 processor, I want to install fcitx5, 10.0 branch does not have fcitx5-configtool, 10.0_2023Q4 does not have fcitx5-chinese-addone, I installed these two software in two branches respectively, but they cannot be used, what should I do? Thank you

rvp

zlxs You could compile those 2 packages yourself. Just download the pkgsrc tree corresponding to the binary packages you already have (say, 2024Q1) then run make install clean in their source dirs. Might take a long time, though...

nettester

While i don't know why certain packages are available or not, mixing different branches is probably not the best idea to begin with as while their packages might work together they certainly aren't designed or tested to do so.

The best approach would likely be sticking with a single branch and trying to port the missing package over. Chances are it can mostly work as is and just needs to have some dependencies bump or similar minor adjustments.