pkg : Undefined symbol "openat"

[Erdos New]

I'm still exploring freebsd,  and i still haven't got a good grasp on 'pkg' ecosystem.  on several instances, 'pkg' rendered entire system unusable after installing a package.  firefox, xfce DE, and 'x' windows all have been broken before by  'pkg update/upgrade'.    coming from Debian, i thought 'pkg' is equivalent to 'apt', but now i know better:  'pkg' is not 'apt', it does more to break system than anything else.  it does dependency check only on limited scale, and it does not install all needed dependencies. 
 

 so why i haven't upgraded?  because i don't want to spend several hours to fix a system breaking by 'pkg' again.  i've freebsd11 running on two other computers and i dread to install any package with 'pkg', worrying my system will break by it.



 -erdos

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad Davis <brd at FreeBSD.org>
To: Erdos New <shaojwen at aim.com>
Cc: freebsd-pkg <freebsd-pkg at freebsd.org>
Sent: Fri, Jan 6, 2017 2:23 pm
Subject: Re: pkg :   Undefined symbol "openat"

On Fri, Jan 06, 2017 at 01:14:54PM -0500, Erdos New via freebsd-pkg wrote:
> for now i'd like to stay with 10.1 instead of upgrading to 10.3.  

Why would you stay with something that is not supported?


Regards,
Brad Davis

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