From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 13 02:55:36 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A114916A4CE for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 02:55:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.194.102.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 469C943D49 for ; Wed, 13 Apr 2005 02:55:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0427C51355; Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:55:34 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 19:55:34 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: freebsd@drseuk.f2s.com Message-ID: <20050413025534.GA36367@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <1113355778.425c760293b26@webmail.freedom2surf.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="azLHFNyN32YCQGCU" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1113355778.425c760293b26@webmail.freedom2surf.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gnome / xorg / Ports / Release related nightmares X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 02:55:36 -0000 --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:29:38AM +0100, freebsd@drseuk.f2s.com wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > At the risk of being accused of being "a troll in the bikeshed", here goe= s: >=20 > I've used FreeBSD since 2.2.6 (c. 1998) and I love it. Never lost any dat= a and I > trust it, thanks to all the hard work all the developers are doing! >=20 > Recently, I went through the 4.3 -> 5.3 / XFree -> xorg / Gnome 2.4 -> 2.= 10 > upgrade cycle somewhat ambitiously in one go. >=20 > Currently I'm tracking 5.3 Release (though of course I'm aware that 5.4 is > imminent). >=20 > I need to use ports (1200+ of them on average in fact), yet they are only > supported for STABLE, yet the blind use of STABLE is not recommended. and the most recent release on the -stable branch(es). See http://www.freebsd.org/ports. > Basically I'm asking for advice on how best to install / manage ports with > stability in mind. I'm guilty of mixing "pkg_add -vr" (Release based) with > "make install" (Current ports tree based) and "portupgrade" (which AFAIK = kind > of mixes the previous two options) as well as resorting to the occasional= "ln > -s" after a bit of "ldd'ing" (which is probably not advisable long term b= ut > helps if you need a quick library link on a slow machine!). As you suspect, this can damage the ability of your system to run ported applications. Don't do it unless you're prepared to track down and repair the damage when it happens (it sounds like you're not). Kris --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCXIomWry0BWjoQKURApj2AJ9sr9pt1AyRhJ98BN6A+/Rq5BPGIQCg2LqQ QAsWIdCVtXaUJ5csoJEj0TI= =sokp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --azLHFNyN32YCQGCU--