* Bob Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-23 22:00:58 -0500]: > On Wednesday 23 March 2005 08:16 pm, N.J. Thomas wrote: > > "pkg_add -r foo". This worked, but it went and downloaded older > > versions of various programs (i.e. Mozilla Firefox 0.9). > > By default, pkg_add uses the packages that were built for your release > (so everything is consistent). As a result, when your release gets to > be a few months old, so do the packages.
Thanks for the tip. I wasn't aware that pkg_add -r was more or less tied strictly to the release version. I followed your advice and deleted all the older packages, installed portupgrade, updated the ports tree, and reinstalled everything I needed. Things seem to be okay now. > > 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". > > What do you mean when you say you are in DLL hell? Is something > actually not working right? FreeBSD is pretty good about managing > libraries. Well, the specific problem I had was that after doign a fresh install, I installed some packages with pkg_add. Then I updated ports, and installed some more stuff. And then when I went back to use pkg_add, it complained about some program need library v1.4 but v1.6 was installed on the system (because it had been installed by ports). thanks, Thomas -- N.J. Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
