hmm, on Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 03:02:42PM +0200, Jan Stary said that > > > Snapshots and snapshot packages move forward all the time, unlike > > > your installed system. If you have a system that provides > > > libcurses.so.10.0, and (a new version of) a package comes out that > > > requires libcurses.so.11.0, there is simply no way to upgrade the > > > package, because your system does not meet the package's requirements. > > > That's exactly what pkg_add is telling you. > > > > at the time of writing i was using the latest OS snapshot.. > > as far as i know snapshot packages are compiled on snapshot > > systems. i am curious how can i get bad major errors > > from packages on the latest snapshot. > > > > i simply expected the oct 9/10 snapshot packages to match > > with the oct 6 system snapshot. > > That exactly is your wrong expectation.
what is the good one then? if i cannot expect the latest system snapshot to use the latest package snapshots, how is one supposed to keep using -current? i have been using -current exactly like this for more than 10 years. 1. install snaphost, 2. install snapshot packages. 99% of the time this worked great. and as far as i know, this is the "party line". please point me to the documentation that says otherwise. -f -- selfishness is a vice we see only in others.
