Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 12:27:00 -0700 From: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> To: Odhiambo Washington <odhiambo@gmail.com> Cc: Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>, Matthew Petach <mpetach@yahoo.com>, "questions@freebsd.org" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Impossible to build MongoDB44 on FreeBSD 12.4? Message-ID: <7acpb7y5oav2woyjtow52k2syr5klsdhebn3sebkb7h3wh2cfb@m3endmxwai63> In-Reply-To: <CAAdA2WOFMf5Gz5FAdOnc--=13-SR-Ojt6xw2u=aP%2BUvnsP_Hpw@mail.gmail.com> References: <262989174.2467990.1685491667239.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <262989174.2467990.1685491667239@mail.yahoo.com> <73fa2549-a936-a70d-4039-329d3358c9c1@tinka.africa> <1116748867.2507770.1685510371031@mail.yahoo.com> <bceea6e4-ce10-4696-3d0b-911a829716a6@tinka.africa> <CAAdA2WOFMf5Gz5FAdOnc--=13-SR-Ojt6xw2u=aP%2BUvnsP_Hpw@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 09:54:55AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 9:41 AM Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote: > > > > > > > On 5/31/23 07:19, Matthew Petach wrote: > > > > > > Hi Mark, > > > > I was rather hoping to avoid mixing one pre-built package with > > dependencies on > > older versions of packages on a system with everything else built from the > > ports tree, > > but I may not have much of a choice. :( > > > > > > I have found myself having to do that from time to time, for various > > reasons, e.g., disk space issues with large builds, odd breakage when > > building from Ports that no amount of troubleshooting can fix, e.t.c. > > > > At least FreeBSD gives you both options, so you don't have to rebuild your > > entire system from scratch to fix weirdness. > > > > Mark. > > > > The moment you do "pkg install foo" and you're prompted with a list of pkgs > to be installed, upgraded and reinstalled and you do not want a single one > of them except "foo", then you go crying! i frequently use "pkg lock foo" for the rare situations where i need to pin a specific version on my systems. -p -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org
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