persisting pkg questions ....
William A. Mahaffey III
wam at hiwaay.net
Wed Sep 3 13:08:22 UTC 2014
On 09/03/14 02:06, Juan Ramón Molina Menor wrote:
>> I am using pkg whenever possible, in preference to ports, however, there
>> are a few things that require ports (flash plugin for browsers, for
>> example) .... seems unavoidable. Is there a way to work around this
>> issue ?
>
> I don’t see the issue: upgrade your packages when they become
> available in the official repositories (once a week) and the
> non-redistributable (i.e. Flash) or customized ports whenever they are
> updated. If you are careful and know what you are doing, you can mix
> them.
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Good news !!!! I just tried the same 4 'pkg ....' steps I originally
posted, *w/o messing w/ ports 1st*, & it is working !!!! *hoooooray* !!!!
So, to close the loop here, you need to do any pkg upgrades *before*
messing around w/ ports ....
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