From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 17 07:38:35 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 783FD752 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 07:38:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from blue.qeng-ho.org (blue.qeng-ho.org [217.155.128.241]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0D89B604 for ; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 07:38:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from arthur.home.qeng-ho.org (arthur.home.qeng-ho.org [172.23.1.2]) by fileserver.home.qeng-ho.org (8.14.7/8.14.5) with ESMTP id s8H7cVXf028856; Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:38:31 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from freebsd@qeng-ho.org) Message-ID: <54193A77.1060508@qeng-ho.org> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 08:38:31 +0100 From: Arthur Chance User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jos Chrispijn , Coert , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A lot of pkg problems References: <2509308.9rytrV7MvD@penguin> <5411A89B.4010707@gmail.com> <1812950.bWcWxrzvJI@penguin> <54189CD1.7070102@webrz.net> In-Reply-To: <54189CD1.7070102@webrz.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jamie Griffin X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 07:38:35 -0000 On 16/09/2014 21:25, Jos Chrispijn wrote: > Coert: >> Upgraded to version 1.3.7, was on an older one indeed. Was running >> 1.2.4_1 Still having issues though, for now I just stick to release/0 >> and pkg version 1.2.4_1 Going to try an upgrade later > I really don't know why pkg should be used in this stage. I seldom have > seen so much negative side effects with using a program as with this one. > Is the program not tested thouroughly or am I just too stupid to > understand? Last time I used it, my complete php port system got damaged > and had to reinstall BSD from scratch in order to get my active ports in > line again. What you're seeing all comes from people who are having problems with pkg. Those of us for whom it just works generally don't bother saying anything. I was a relatively early adopter of pkg and have had exactly one problem, which was caused by forgetting to read /usr/ports/UPDATING first. > Please understand that writing this is no offence to the author of pkg; > I really respect all effort that is put in it - I just don't understand > why it causes me/us so much trouble using it. > Have you tried building your own repository? That would avoid potential version discrepancies between ports and the main repo.