Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2016 10:57:28 -0800 (PST) From: "Jeffrey Bouquet" <jbtakk@iherebuywisely.com> To: "Marc UBM Bocklet" <ubm.freebsd@googlemail.com> Cc: "current" <current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkg on old current - library woes Message-ID: <E1cLaSe-0008UC-8J@rmm6prod02.runbox.com> In-Reply-To: <20161226172706.5f3a588196ee067e6c19a5ef@gmail.com>
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On Mon, 26 Dec 2016 17:27:06 +0100, Marc UBM Bocklet <ubm.freebsd@googlemai= l.com> wrote: >=20 > Hi list, >=20 > I'm writing this as an reminder for others who might be in a similar > situation. Don't blindly (like me) use pkg on an old current or you'll > (understandably) run into tons of library / linking issues. >=20 > I update my current only very belatedly and thus was running current > from around March 2016. pkg correctly detected ABI =3D > "FreeBSD:11:amd64"; and installed the requested packages, but of course > I was missing all kinds of recent library versions (libssl, libpam, > fopencookie problems in mod_php, among others). This caused me quite a > headache at first, but then I went from my ancient current to 11-release > and now everything works like a charm.=20 >=20 > Searching online, I found only one reference to the situation I had been > in: >=20 > https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-pkgbase/2016-June/000271.html. >=20 > Maybe pkg could print some kind of warning if you're behind too far on > current, though admittedly this is very likely some edge case and > updating to a release version fixed everything.=20 >=20 > pkg itself is really great, it's just so much faster and simpler than > portmaster or the old package system. Props to all the people who made > that possible! >=20 > Cheers, > Marc >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I used to use IIRC pkgdb -F : "pkgdb -F is not supported with PKGNG yet. Us= e 'pkg check' directly." I also used to use -b IIRC with portmaster to save .so. files, and nowadays= proactively check UPDATING to copy .so. files to /usr/local/lib/compat manually so pkg updates don't go awry hardly ever. ... using 11.0-CURRENT so I may get bitten by this one, but I've less trust in = IW once BW completes so tend to delay upgrading fwiw, also a lack of time.=
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