greetings from FreeBSD DLL Hell!

[bob at a1poweruser.com]

here is real good install guide.
http://freebsd.packards-home.net/index.php

It has section on ports and packages.


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of N.J. Thomas
Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2005 8:16 PM
To: questions at freebsd.org
Subject: greetings from FreeBSD DLL Hell!

I installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE and was installing packages via
"pkg_add
-r foo". This worked, but it went and downloaded older versions of
various programs (i.e. Mozilla Firefox 0.9). How can I tell pkg_add
to
use the "5-latest" (5-STABLE? RELENG_5_3?) branch? Do I have to
update
my sources before I can do this?

So after I installed 5.3 yesterday I installed some packages with
pkg_add -r (which used the 5.3-RELEASE versions of the software),
and
then installed some other stuff with ports, and then updated ports
with
cvsup and then installed yet some more stuff, and now I seem to find
myself in the FreeBSD equivalent of "DLL Hell". Should I just blow
my
system away and start from scratch? Is that the best course of
action to
take at this point?

thanks,
Thomas

--
N.J. Thomas
njt at ayvali.org
Etiamsi occiderit me, in ipso sperabo
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