FreeBSD did it again (still)

Per olof Ljungmark peo at intersonic.se
Wed Jul 5 20:45:46 UTC 2017


On 2017-07-05 22:36, Jim Ohlstein wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On 07/05/2017 07:54 PM, Baho Utot wrote:
>> Up graded an old laptop from 10.1 to 11.0-p10.  I then checked out the
>> latest quarterly ports.  I figured that FreeBSD would barf and I was not
>> disappointed.   Built the ports with synth and then I installed them,
>> xorg promptly shit itself.
>>
>> So I typed pkg autoremove just for shits and giggles.  Before the
>> upgrade pkg autoremove did nothing ( nothing to remove ) the latest pkg
>> wanted to remove all of Xorg and some other things but not remove
>> lumina.  Figure that one out.
>>
>> Working on figuring this out.
> 
> I'm trying to figure out why your email is time stamped at Date: Wed, 5
> Jul 2017 19:54:10 -0400 which hasn't occurred yet, but that's just me...

The first "Received" time stamp I see is Wed, 05 Jul 2017 15:54:14 -0400 
but the date stamp is "Wed, 05 Jul 2017 15:54:14 -0400" so it does not 
compute.

>>
>> Can you tell me why FreeBSD doesn't need versioned ports again? I am
>> just looking for something that works, I don't need the last version of
>> xyz that just came off the press.
>>
>> Thinking I may need to leave FreeBSD and find something that is
>> stable/works.  An upgrade from a recent version should not requir days
>> to weeks to get it to work.
>>
>>
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