On 02/08/17 11:56, scratch65...@att.net wrote: > So, what's the deal here? To "encourage" people to upgrade, pkg > will break their existing install? That is both hostile and > deeply arrogant!
mat's response is more exasperation than anything else. This is a well
known problem for which there have been /numerous/ bug reports. You're
meant to check that there isn't already a relevant bug report when
creating a PR in bugzilla.
Anyhow:
Your installation is *not* broken. If you build net-mgmt/pkg (yes, the
latest one) from sources using the ports, you will find it works
perfectly well.
Or you can simply use pkg-static
However, there is no guarantee that
a) some other package will not suffer from the same utimensat problem
(so be very wary of using the pre-compiled FreeBSD packages)
b) or that the package you want will compile properly on 10.2-RELEASE
(most will, but a number of packages will fall foul of compiler
problems and the like which have been solved in 10.3-RELEASE.)
Yes, pkg(8) should issue prominent warnings when used on a system that
is out of support. However, your best recourse is to update your
system, and then all of this grief will cease to bother you.
Cheers,
Matthew
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