Re: Impossible to build MongoDB44 on FreeBSD 12.4?

On Wed, May 31, 2023 at 10:27 PM Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> wrote:

> 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
>

I have seen a situation where I see mysqlXX-client is gonna be installed,
yet I uninstalled MysqlXX-* and moved to MariaDB. Wueh!
Then on top of that, some other pkgs that you aren't interested in are also
going to be installed!



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