[oi-dev] Can not install any gcc compiler

[Marcel Telka]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2022 at 07:01:56PM +0200, Udo Grabowski (IMK) wrote:
> Thanks for the fast help, update did fix the situation. So before
> installing larger amounts, a 'pkg update -n' should become a
> regular habit in the morning... the wonders of rolling releases.

In this case it was not caused by rolling release, but by simple fact
that too many packages at pkg server slows down everything[*] so the pkg
server needs to be cleaned from time to time.

The current way to do so is roughly this: keep latest version of every
package and drop everything else.  And this, obviously, causes problems
like you faced.

But, at least, it should be always possible to do 'pkg update' to get
back on track (unless your system is veeery veeery old).

[*] okay, not literally everything :-)

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