From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 18 13:36:15 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 119DE106568B for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:36:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f202.google.com (mail-pz0-f202.google.com [209.85.222.202]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D95C18FC12 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:36:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk40 with SMTP id 40so5863097pzk.7 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:36:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=olIvniD48U3mH6wlTCkjFCFdhtIGqvD0slzAIgEThMM=; b=pA4J68jD38EusFTGrdSPamihHo3baFlwIyxB2oqFiNaA1E3C1kkiJI0kzfmcjyymn6 k/leD/Xq+VXW82JTpQqiWQpWb/X6y5u4AxPJLBeHslJL7Xu26Fvu1cCyHdUn9Mo8vSGF 1DKZ0VSSS7y+JT0KxgfFwdAt0hsV0mv52KeZc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=g2hnVWYj5pqV3IIa/fGVyC2nxOA1OR329OztVREwbgcTDLcsG78Rep+2hWYUQY3SLN J+Kxmg9EYyUlhjBmsX7/S8UCYPb8U7x9vc1NSlBsDvf8cYUfpDt9sIuTB6tj1zG2z9rZ F347GeHaKAzxMqxC0SPIU6A+9MXhSCsYmaJb4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.152.11 with SMTP id z11mr6387833wfd.71.1266500174337; Thu, 18 Feb 2010 05:36:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <6201873e1002171551s580a9279wbaa9b95aa824e1d2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:36:14 -0600 Message-ID: <6201873e1002180536u3730c85bveac24c34da3bf766@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Unable to build kdelibs3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 13:36:15 -0000 On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Carmel wrote: > That is the same advice I have been given on other forums also. > > I will probably follow the same avenue that a colleague of mine did and > abandon FBSD until version 8.1 is released and then simply dump the > entire system and install the newer version. Then again, maybe I will > just wait until the updated version of KDE is released so as to > eliminate the hassle of updating a vast number of libraries, etc and > again experiencing another system failure. I have all ready invested way > too much time on this problem. This was the worst update I have > experienced in seven years with FBSD. > FWIW, the last libjpeg update was no peach for me either, but for all the pains I still think the ports system is superior to other OS's sw management. Sometimes the debian respository is a large WTF, and that's the good one. Also I posted a script a few days ago that will create a backup of all currently installed packages. Useful in a situation like yours so you could revert to known good set of pkg's until you have time to deal with the full upgrade. -- Adam Vande More