From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 25 02:48:01 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 04B4A16A4CE for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 02:48:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from sanddollar.geekisp.com (sanddollar.geekisp.com [204.89.131.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 206AB43D4C for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2005 02:47:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from njt@dune.geekisp.com) Received: (qmail 24952 invoked from network); 25 Mar 2005 02:47:58 -0000 Received: from unknown (192.168.4.35) by mail.geekisp.com with QMQP; 25 Mar 2005 02:47:58 -0000 Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:48:20 -0500 From: "N.J. Thomas" To: Joshua Tinnin Message-ID: <20050325024819.GC9051@ayvali.org> References: <20050324011607.GA1199@ayvali.org> <200503231821.06709.krinklyfig@spymac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200503231821.06709.krinklyfig@spymac.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 02:48:01 -0000 * Joshua Tinnin [2005-03-23 18:21:05 -0800]: > Packages are built to work with the particular release specified. Once > ports are unfrozen, right before release, they start changing again, > and updating new packages for all ports for every minor version bump in > the tree is not viable at the moment (12000+ ports), AFAIK, nor would > it be in line with freezing ports before release. Yeah, this was the one thing I didn't understand about packages. I just assumed it would do the right thing and download the latest version. > > 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? > > You don't need to reinstall the OS, but it might be simpler for you if > you deleted all the packages, with pkg_delete -a (from root). That's what I ended up doing. I deleted all my packages. installed only the ones I absolutely needed (in my case: zsh, vim, and cvsup), upgraded ports, and then went from there. Thank for your help. Thomas -- N.J. Thomas njt@ayvali.org Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo