On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 11:49:47AM -0600, Peter Steele wrote: > >Presumably (and I am speculating), the 8.0 packages are not yet finalized > >and therefore inconsistent. Perhaps you will have better luck after the > >official 8.0 Release? > > I was thinking the same thing--too much version mismatching going on. I'm > going to take your suggestion though and compile all of the ports we want to > use, and then convert them back into packages. I tried that with one port > that was failing and this solved the problem. >
When you do a major upgrade (ie: 6 to 7, or 7 to 8), one of the final steps recommended is to recompile all ports. The compatX packages are a stop gap until your transition is complete, and can/should be removed once all your ports have been updated. If you choose not to recompile/refectch all your ports, you are faced with the possibility of library and port dependancy breakages as each installed port updates to newer and possibly incompatible versions. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen <j...@chen.org.nz> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "A little learning is a dangerous thing but a lot of ignorance is just as bad." - Bob Edwards _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
