FreeBSD did it again (still)

Per olof Ljungmark peo at intersonic.se
Wed Jul 5 21:21:07 UTC 2017


Quoting Per olof Ljungmark <peo at intersonic.se>:

> 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.

Sorry, I meant "Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2017 19:54:10 -0400". Copy and paste error.

>>>
>>> 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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>>
>
> Per olof Ljungmark
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