pkg - Shared object "libarchive.so.5" not found, required by "pkg"

Julien Laffaye jlaffaye at freebsd.org
Sat Nov 24 18:54:02 UTC 2012


On 11/24/2012 7:38 PM, Christer Solskogen wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 3:45 PM, Victor Balada Diaz <victor at bsdes.net> wrote:
>> You have pkg-static for that kind of problems. You should rebuild pkg
>> port to get pkg working again.
> So I still need /usr/ports when I use pkg?
>
No.

CURRENT is a special case because there is no ABI guarantee throughout 
its lifetime. (A package built for -CURRENT has a very little meaning, 
and we cant build them for every svn revision).
So, yes, on CURRENT you'd better build your packages.


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