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Date:      Fri, 24 Jun 2011 16:44:26 -0700
From:      perryh@pluto.rain.com
To:        rwmaillists@googlemail.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installing X11 gives perl version conflict
Message-ID:  <4e05215a.G8Om14zvY6VoDMBB%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110624172221.137a8331@gumby.homeunix.com>
References:  <20110624051018.320540@gmx.com> <86k4cbnv2u.fsf@red.stonehenge.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1106241050560.93347@fledge.watson.org> <iu29tm$mp1$1@dough.gmane.org> <20110624172221.137a8331@gumby.homeunix.com>

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RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> wrote:

> If building isn't an option then it's better to stick to one
> release trees at a time.

Unfortunately, it seems that pkg_add(1) does not make that as easy
as one might prefer.  I discovered recently that, even though I am
running 8.1-RELEASE (and not 8-STABLE), "pkg_add -r" fetches from
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/Latest/,
rather than from the frozen-at-release -- and thus self-consistent
-- collection in .../All/

One way around this is to set PACKAGESITE to, for example,
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.1-release/All/
(making any necessary adjustments to the mirror and release names).



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