* Joshua Tinnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-03-23 18:21:05 -0800]: > Packages are built to work with the particular release specified. Once > ports are unfrozen, right before release, they start changing again, > and updating new packages for all ports for every minor version bump in > the tree is not viable at the moment (12000+ ports), AFAIK, nor would > it be in line with freezing ports before release.
Yeah, this was the one thing I didn't understand about packages. I just assumed it would do the right thing and download the latest version. > > now I seem to find myself in the FreeBSD equivalent of "DLL Hell". > > Should I just blow my system away and start from scratch? Is that > > the best course of action to take at this point? > > You don't need to reinstall the OS, but it might be simpler for you if > you deleted all the packages, with pkg_delete -a (from root). That's what I ended up doing. I deleted all my packages. installed only the ones I absolutely needed (in my case: zsh, vim, and cvsup), upgraded ports, and then went from there. Thank for your help. 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]"
