Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 23:30:10 +0200 From: Per olof Ljungmark <peo@intersonic.se> To: Baho Utot <baho-utot@columbus.rr.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD did it again (still) Message-ID: <563b14d5-ebfb-62b6-28ac-3ebbd663d067@intersonic.se> In-Reply-To: <020431a6-1a7d-d80e-0725-585c21f3ef27@columbus.rr.com> References: <27b3c757-1f00-a033-03f6-303a82ab65f2@columbus.rr.com> <3ce31ee2-5e35-d31c-71ca-dc95ece2dd61@intersonic.se> <020431a6-1a7d-d80e-0725-585c21f3ef27@columbus.rr.com>
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On 2017-07-06 03:21, Baho Utot wrote: > > > On 7/5/2017 4:31 PM, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: >> On 2017-07-06 01:54, Baho Utot wrote: >>> Up graded an old laptop from 10.1 to 11.0-p10. I then checked out >>> the latest quarterly ports. I figured that FreeBSD would barf and I >>> was not disappointed. Built the ports with synth and then I installed >>> them, xorg promptly shit itself. >>> >>> So I typed pkg autoremove just for shits and giggles. Before the >>> upgrade pkg autoremove did nothing ( nothing to remove ) the latest >>> pkg wanted to remove all of Xorg and some other things but not remove >>> lumina. Figure that one out. >>> >>> Working on figuring this out. >>> >>> Can you tell me why FreeBSD doesn't need versioned ports again? I am >>> just looking for something that works, I don't need the last version >>> of xyz that just came off the press. >>> >>> Thinking I may need to leave FreeBSD and find something that is >>> stable/works. An upgrade from a recent version should not requir >>> days to weeks to get it to work. >>> >> >> Hi, >> >> Not sure what you are aiming at here but - just felt I had to comment. >> You are probably right that there must be cohersion between packages >> and system when using prebuilt binaries. >> >> My way of doing it is the opposite, everything is compiled from >> source, the classic *nix way. This way, FreeBSD has never let me down. >> >> I think the best approach if you have an older system where it takes >> ages to compile, you really need to follow a strict path using >> packages. On a more recent system, nothing beats source builds. >> >> There has been a lot of discussion over this matter recently, please >> understand that this is not RedHat or Ubuntu, the resources needed to >> keep up with building binaries are limited in comparison. If you need >> prebuilt packages, please just contribute to the work. >> >> Just my SEK 0.2 >> >> //per > > I built the ports from svn source using synth I did not use prebuilt > binaries. I did do it the classic *nix way. That was odd. But if you provide more detailed info I'm sure there is help on the list. I only use portmaster due to its ease of use, have no experience from synth. //per
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