Re: Impossible to build MongoDB44 on FreeBSD 12.4?

On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 9:41 AM Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:

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> On 5/31/23 07:19, Matthew Petach wrote:
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> Hi Mark,
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> I was rather hoping to avoid mixing one pre-built package with
> dependencies on
> older versions of packages on a system with everything else built from the
> ports tree,
> but I may not have much of a choice.    :(
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> I have found myself having to do that from time to time, for various
> reasons, e.g., disk space issues with large builds, odd breakage when
> building from Ports that no amount of troubleshooting can fix, e.t.c.
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> At least FreeBSD gives you both options, so you don't have to rebuild your
> entire system from scratch to fix weirdness.
>
> Mark.
>

The moment you do "pkg install foo" and you're prompted with a list of pkgs
to be installed, upgraded and reinstalled and you do not want a single one
of them except "foo", then you go crying!

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