Never mind (was: cups package?)

[Brad Davis]

On Tue, Jan 21, 2020, at 3:42 PM, George Mitchell wrote:
> On 2020-01-21 10:02, George Mitchell wrote:
> > I'm running 11.2-RELEASE on my ancient Raspberry Pi.  I recently
> > deleted the cups package (because I hate CUPS and it's a pain to
> > type /usr/bin/lpr all the time to get the right lpr).  Then I did
> > a pkg upgrade which did lots of good updates with no problem --
> > including ghostscript9-agpl-base.  (ghostscript9-agpl-base was
> > last updated on January 17.)  Unfortunately, ghostscript9-agpl-base
> > as packaged depends on libcups.so.2 libcupsimage.so.2.  But I
> > can't reinstall cups because it is not found in the current package
> > repository.  Isn't it wrong that the official repo should have an
> > unsatisfied dependency, other than as a transitory problem?  Help!
> > -- George
> > 
> 
> So I bit the bullet, set ALLOW_UNSUPPORTED_SYSTEM=1, NFS-mounted a
> /usr/ports tree, set up swap on a local USB disk (which ironically
> was not used), and compiled ghostscript without CUPS.  Much to my
> surprise, it took only six hours, and my problem is now solved.
> 
> So to update to 11.3-RELEASE, do I have to do a source upgrade?
> freebsd-update appears not to work (3 mirrors found, fetching public
> key failed three times).                                  -- George

Yes, freebsd-update is not really workable (i.e. would take longer than a source upgrade) on a RPi.


Regards,
Brad Davis