switching from ports to pkg -- mailman group mismatch

John Levine johnl at iecc.com
Fri Dec 5 19:15:26 UTC 2014


>You're using p5-DBD-mysql from the default pkg repos? That's going to
>have the dependency on mysql55-client baked into it -- if you want to
>use percona, then in that case you'll need to compile your own.

Yes, that's what I said.  The problem is that whenever I do pkg
upgrade, it tries to replace my version with the default version, and
install mysql55 as well.  I can deter it by locking the package, but
it's a pain.

>We do have plans for improving the pkg experience with precompiled
>packages in this regard.  There are two measures in particular:

Looking forward to them.  Tnx.

R's,
John


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