Installing ports in jail with dependency version conflicts

[Michael B]

I was trying to install streamripper with 'pkg_add -r streamripper' today in the jail and it said it required perl5.12 and had a conflict with version perl5.14 that was already installed.

I built from source to resolve the problem. Is there a better way to handle this?

 

[dlavigne]

That approach is usually the cleanest as it also rebuilds all dependencies.

 

[Michael B]

okay, thanks.

I'm new to FreeBSD. I noticed the new beta version of FreeNas supports pkgng, which I suppose will make package management easier.