Re: Impossible to build MongoDB44 on FreeBSD 12.4?

From: Pete Wright <pete_at_nomadlogic.org>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 19:27:00 UTC
On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 09:54:55AM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 9:41 AM Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa> wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On 5/31/23 07:19, Matthew Petach wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > 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.    :(
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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!

i frequently use "pkg lock foo" for the rare situations where i need to pin a
specific version on my systems.

-p


-- 
Pete Wright
pete@nomadlogic.org