From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 24 01:15:47 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 B29AA16A4CE for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 01:15:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sanddollar.geekisp.com (sanddollar.geekisp.com [204.89.131.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09D0F43D2D for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 01:15:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from njt@dune.geekisp.com) Received: (qmail 13688 invoked from network); 24 Mar 2005 01:15:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (192.168.4.35) by mail.geekisp.com with QMQP; 24 Mar 2005 01:15:46 -0000 Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 20:16:08 -0500 From: "N.J. Thomas" To: questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050324011607.GA1199@ayvali.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: greetings from FreeBSD DLL Hell! 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: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 01:15:47 -0000 I installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE and was installing packages via "pkg_add -r foo". This worked, but it went and downloaded older versions of various programs (i.e. Mozilla Firefox 0.9). How can I tell pkg_add to use the "5-latest" (5-STABLE? RELENG_5_3?) branch? Do I have to update my sources before I can do this? So after I installed 5.3 yesterday I installed some packages with pkg_add -r (which used the 5.3-RELEASE versions of the software), and then installed some other stuff with ports, and then updated ports with cvsup and then installed yet some more stuff, and now I seem to find myself in the FreeBSD equivalent of "DLL Hell". Should I just blow my system away and start from scratch? Is that the best course of action to take at this point? thanks, Thomas -- N.J. Thomas njt@ayvali.org Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo