Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:36:14 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to build kdelibs3 Message-ID: <6201873e1002180536u3730c85bveac24c34da3bf766@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BLU0-SMTP997B49553A39D97C5C3A4793470@phx.gbl> References: <BLU0-SMTP42CE71EF4D42804874FA2B93480@phx.gbl> <6201873e1002171551s580a9279wbaa9b95aa824e1d2@mail.gmail.com> <BLU0-SMTP997B49553A39D97C5C3A4793470@phx.gbl>
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On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Carmel <carmel_ny@hotmail.com> 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
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