portmaster installation trampling on my binary packages???

RW rwmaillists at googlemail.com
Sun Mar 19 22:58:04 UTC 2017


On Sun, 19 Mar 2017 21:57:48 +0000
Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:


> I'm not sure I understand. Are "latest" and "quarterly" ports trees?
>

The default packages for releases are built from a series of branches
of the main ports tree that are made split-off every three months, and
then just get security updates.

 
> Oh, reading section 4 of the handbook got me into this mess. :)
> Perhaps I'm too tired to read it properly, because I don't see
> anything to suggest I avoid mixing packages & ports freely.

The main problem is  mixing packages from different versions of the
ports tree. You would probably have got away with that if you'd updated
as much as possible with pkg and then just updated the few remaining
packages from ports, but ideally you should use the same version of the
ports tree that was used to build the package files. Your problem today
was that you told portmaster to upgrade *everything* from ports.


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