Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2026 01:29:00 -0400 From: Mike <the.lists@mgm51.com> To: freebsd-pkgbase@FreeBSD.org Subject: pkg upgrade yields conflicts in message Message-ID: <c5899c43-6e29-4645-a429-cdec64124d32@mgm51.com>
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OK, I had been critical of the "conflicts" presented in pkgs. Today, I performed an update, Many, many! gcc updates downloaded and installed. And, after the update, lo and behold ... No conflicts noted! ..... # pkg-do-upgrades.sh Updating FreeBSD-ports repository catalogue... FreeBSD-ports repository is up to date. Updating FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository catalogue... FreeBSD-ports-kmods repository is up to date. Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue... FreeBSD repository is up to date. All repositories are up to date. Checking for upgrades (0 candidates): 100% Processing candidates (0 candidates): 100% Checking integrity... done (0 conflicting) Your packages are up to date. ..... Of course, there still remains the questions for me... Why do I need to download and install all of ... gcc12-12.4.0_5 GNU Compiler Collection 12 gcc13-devel-13.4.1.s20260624 GNU Compiler Collection 13 gcc14-devel-14.3.1.s20260618,1 GNU Compiler Collection 14 gcc15-15.2.0_3 GNU Compiler Collection 15 gcc16-devel-16.1.1.s20260627 GNU Compiler Collection 16 gcc17-devel-17.0.0.s20260621 GNU Compiler Collection 17 on the server? Six different versions of gcc?? I mean really, can't FreeBSD get its collective act together and move towards one or two, even three versions of gcc? But six? Wow.home | help
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