Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 16:01:24 -0700 From: "Brad Davis" <brd@FreeBSD.org> To: "Robert Crowston via freebsd-arm" <freebsd-arm@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Never mind (was: cups package?) Message-ID: <08b53c96-c990-40e8-89d6-fce3fca6d5e1@www.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: <78e72ad1-4af8-f9e8-646e-1aa8c67c7621@m5p.com> References: <e3fbbaf1-631c-9f34-ee3c-04c6210740f3@m5p.com> <78e72ad1-4af8-f9e8-646e-1aa8c67c7621@m5p.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Tue, Jan 21, 2020, at 3:42 PM, George Mitchell wrote: > On 2020-01-21 10:02, George Mitchell wrote: > > I'm running 11.2-RELEASE on my ancient Raspberry Pi. I recently > > deleted the cups package (because I hate CUPS and it's a pain to > > type /usr/bin/lpr all the time to get the right lpr). Then I did > > a pkg upgrade which did lots of good updates with no problem -- > > including ghostscript9-agpl-base. (ghostscript9-agpl-base was > > last updated on January 17.) Unfortunately, ghostscript9-agpl-base > > as packaged depends on libcups.so.2 libcupsimage.so.2. But I > > can't reinstall cups because it is not found in the current package > > repository. Isn't it wrong that the official repo should have an > > unsatisfied dependency, other than as a transitory problem? Help! > > -- George > > > > So I bit the bullet, set ALLOW_UNSUPPORTED_SYSTEM=1, NFS-mounted a > /usr/ports tree, set up swap on a local USB disk (which ironically > was not used), and compiled ghostscript without CUPS. Much to my > surprise, it took only six hours, and my problem is now solved. > > So to update to 11.3-RELEASE, do I have to do a source upgrade? > freebsd-update appears not to work (3 mirrors found, fetching public > key failed three times). -- George Yes, freebsd-update is not really workable (i.e. would take longer than a source upgrade) on a RPi. Regards, Brad Davis
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?08b53c96-c990-40e8-89d6-fce3fca6d5e1>