Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 20:16:08 -0500 From: "N.J. Thomas" <njt@ayvali.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: greetings from FreeBSD DLL Hell! Message-ID: <20050324011607.GA1199@ayvali.org>
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I installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE and was installing packages via "pkg_add -r foo". This worked, but it went and downloaded older versions of various programs (i.e. Mozilla Firefox 0.9). How can I tell pkg_add to use the "5-latest" (5-STABLE? RELENG_5_3?) branch? Do I have to update my sources before I can do this? So after I installed 5.3 yesterday I installed some packages with pkg_add -r (which used the 5.3-RELEASE versions of the software), and then installed some other stuff with ports, and then updated ports with cvsup and then installed yet some more stuff, and 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? thanks, Thomas -- N.J. Thomas njt@ayvali.org Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo
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