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Is there a way to cause portmaster -a to display it's logic for adding ports? Specifically, I have a system with perl5-5.20.3_8 already installed, but running portmaster -a stipulates that lang/perl5.22 should be installed. This, of course, fails due to conflict. Presumably another port I'm...

Just a question, in case anyone has an answer: why does the Firefox port crash every time I update it? Example from today's update, from /var/log/messages: Feb 9 21:31:09 kg-core1 pkg: firefox-44.0,1 deinstalled Feb 9 21:31:17 kg-core1 pkg-static: firefox-44.0.1,1 installed Feb 9 21:32:11...

root@server:~ # pkg version bash-4.3.42_1 = ca_root_nss-3.20.1 = cpdup-1.17_2 = curl-7.44.0 < cvsps-2.1_1 = expat-2.1.0_3 = gettext-0.19.5.1 < gettext-runtime-0.19.5.1 < gettext-tools-0.19.5.1 < git-2.6.1 < indexinfo-0.2.3 < libffi-3.2.1 = p5-Authen-SASL-2.16_1 =...

Hello! Looked around a bit and realised it seems like FreeBSD is not having any Bitcoin wallet natively available? I would love to see Electrum ported or maybe some other Bitcoin wallet software which doesn't have to download the whole Bitcoin blockchain database... Question number 2 is...

Hi, I'd like to know if you have a good way of keeping a system completely up to date in a completely automated way. If my understanding is correct, I can add 42 8 * * * freebsd-update cron in root's crontab to have the base system (I guess that means the kernel and the programs in /bin)...

Hey guys, i I want to install the MySQL packages on the FreeBSD root, its the first time I am trying to work with a FreeBSD root, and now I have an error. I hope someone can help me to fix it. "cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql55-server /usr/ports/databases/mysql55-server # make...

(Some issues in common with https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/pkg-broken-after-ugrading-freebsd-from-10-1-to-10-2.52817/, notably the lack of libucl.so.1) Before upgrading from 10.1-STABLE to 10.2-RELEASE, pkg was working nicely. After upgrading, libucl.so.1 is missing. This seems very weird...

I have a FreeBSD installation that had an upgrade failure between 8.? and 9.4 (IIRC). In the interest of getting 10.2 working properly on the machine, I downloaded the DVD image and burned a disc. Now I'm trying to figure out how to do the upgrade, and all I can find are instructions pointing...