Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 15:14:07 +0300 From: Anatoliy <anatolik.kiev@gmail.com> To: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Increase in the number of ports: upgrade xorg to 7.2... Message-ID: <466A998F.2010008@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070608170345.4134.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> References: <20070608193955.GA1860@saltmine.radix.net> <20070608154853.9b8e3fc9.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20070608170345.4134.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net>
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On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 05:07:25PM -0400, Gerard wrote: > On June 08, 2007 at 03:48PM Bill Moran wrote: > > [snip] > > > It's not an assumption, its OPTIMISM! > > That reminds me of an optimist who fell off of a fifty story building. > As he passed each floor on the way down, he yelled, "So, so far!" > > Seriously, I hope you are right. I believe it was 'gettext' that was > updated a short time age. That update caused me all sorts of > dependency problems. My shell, bash, would no longer work, etc. > Over a hundred ports had to be updated to get everything back on an > even keel. That is the sort of problem I am worried about. Hopefully, > it won't happen. FYI, if you'd used an upgrade tool like portupgrade it would have been seamless because portupgrade keeps the old library version around for precisely this reason. Kris _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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