On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Carmel <[email protected]> wrote:
> That is the same advice I have been given on other forums also. > > I will probably follow the same avenue that a colleague of mine did and > abandon FBSD until version 8.1 is released and then simply dump the > entire system and install the newer version. Then again, maybe I will > just wait until the updated version of KDE is released so as to > eliminate the hassle of updating a vast number of libraries, etc and > again experiencing another system failure. I have all ready invested way > too much time on this problem. This was the worst update I have > experienced in seven years with FBSD. > FWIW, the last libjpeg update was no peach for me either, but for all the pains I still think the ports system is superior to other OS's sw management. Sometimes the debian respository is a large WTF, and that's the good one. Also I posted a script a few days ago that will create a backup of all currently installed packages. Useful in a situation like yours so you could revert to known good set of pkg's until you have time to deal with the full upgrade. -- Adam Vande More _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
