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Date:      Sat, 24 Nov 2012 19:45:56 +0100
From:      Julien Laffaye <jlaffaye@freebsd.org>
To:        Christer Solskogen <christer.solskogen@gmail.com>
Cc:        Victor Balada Diaz <victor@bsdes.net>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: pkg - Shared object "libarchive.so.5" not found, required by "pkg"
Message-ID:  <50B115E4.1080207@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAMVU60Zkm%2BaV0TjQtVuO92oWvcpJHLnoT0LTnKGBHLG18g5mZw@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <CAMVU60aFShhzpTr4QhAKOcmNEG2-vWeU9yx-C=Q7W96A0As1kg@mail.gmail.com> <20121124144550.GE50873@equilibrium.bsdes.net> <CAMVU60Zkm%2BaV0TjQtVuO92oWvcpJHLnoT0LTnKGBHLG18g5mZw@mail.gmail.com>

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On 11/24/2012 7:38 PM, Christer Solskogen wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Victor Balada Diaz <victor@bsdes.net> wrote:
>> You have pkg-static for that kind of problems. You should rebuild pkg
>> port to get pkg working again.
> So I still need /usr/ports when I use pkg?
>
No.

CURRENT is a special case because there is no ABI guarantee throughout 
its lifetime. (A package built for -CURRENT has a very little meaning, 
and we cant build them for every svn revision).
So, yes, on CURRENT you'd better build your packages.


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