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From: Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist@alogt.com>
To: Scott Eberl <rayzrshrp@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: 9.0 vs 9.1
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Hi,

On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:02:01 -0600
Scott Eberl <rayzrshrp@gmail.com> wrote:

> OK can someone please explain this to me in detail? I've been reading
> all the release notes I can find and I'm not understanding why after
> upgrading to 9.1 I have to compile from source to install stuff now.
> It takes forever and asks me questions I have no idea what the answer
> is to. Early today I installed irssi which I had to do with make
> clean install because just doing pkg_add -r irssi complains about not
> being able to find the url of it.
> 
there was a security problem some time back. It seems that this is the
reason why no packages are available for 9.1 at the moment.

> Should I just reinstall 9.0 and not upgrade, will ports work
> correctly then?

You mean packages? Ports work correctly.

If you really need packages, go back to 8.3 as you will then still
enjoy security fixes and current packages.

Erich
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