Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:48:20 -0500 From: "N.J. Thomas" <njt@ayvali.org> To: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: greetings from FreeBSD DLL Hell! Message-ID: <20050325024819.GC9051@ayvali.org> In-Reply-To: <200503231821.06709.krinklyfig@spymac.com> References: <20050324011607.GA1199@ayvali.org> <200503231821.06709.krinklyfig@spymac.com>
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* Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig@spymac.com> [2005-03-23 18:21:05 -0800]: > Packages are built to work with the particular release specified. Once > ports are unfrozen, right before release, they start changing again, > and updating new packages for all ports for every minor version bump in > the tree is not viable at the moment (12000+ ports), AFAIK, nor would > it be in line with freezing ports before release. Yeah, this was the one thing I didn't understand about packages. I just assumed it would do the right thing and download the latest version. > > now I seem to find myself in the FreeBSD equivalent of "DLL Hell". > > Should I just blow my system away and start from scratch? Is that > > the best course of action to take at this point? > > You don't need to reinstall the OS, but it might be simpler for you if > you deleted all the packages, with pkg_delete -a (from root). That's what I ended up doing. I deleted all my packages. installed only the ones I absolutely needed (in my case: zsh, vim, and cvsup), upgraded ports, and then went from there. Thank for your help. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas njt@ayvali.org Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo
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