pkg question

[Paul Schmehl]

--On January 7, 2019 at 9:04:34 PM +0000 Paul Macdonald via 
freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> wrote:

>
> I historically build stuff from ports, for all the obvious reasons, but i
> can of course see the benefits of using binary packages
>
> I'm confused re the below though, can someone please enlighten me as to
> why bind-tools would need removed in this scenario, and why a deprecated
> version of perl would be required (and perl 5.28 is installed)?
>
> llvm is obviously not a quick port to build.
>
> (i'm hoping perhaps i'm doing something wrong here)
>
> System is FBSD 11.2, amd64
>
> pkg/FreeBSD.conf is: url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
>
>
> -------
>
># pkg upgrade llvm60
> Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
> FreeBSD repository is up to date.
> All repositories are up to date.
> The following 3 package(s) will be affected (of 0 checked):
>
> Installed packages to be REMOVED:
>          bind-tools-9.12.3P1
>
> New packages to be INSTALLED:
>          perl5.24: 5.24.4_2
>
> Installed packages to be UPGRADED:
>          llvm60: 6.0.1_4 -> 6.0.1_5
>
> Number of packages to be removed: 1
> Number of packages to be installed: 1
> Number of packages to be upgraded: 1
>

This is precisely why I do not build from packages. The only time I install 
a port from packages is when it fails to build and is a required dependency 
for other ports.

Paul Schmehl, Retired
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