BIND REPLACE_BASE option

Patrick Powell papowell at astart.com
Tue Jan 13 15:24:15 UTC 2015


On 01/12/15 11:46, Chris H wrote:
>
>> My main complaint with pkg is the persistent misunderstanding that
>> binary packages are a direct replacement for ports.
>> http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/pkg.html
> I'd be inclined to agree here.
>
>
There are some ports that almost demand a local version - apr (Apache 
Portability Library) being one of them.
Currently,  I am locking 'apr' so that pkg upgrade does not clobber 
apr,  and this has worked so far.

Just an observation.

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