On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org>
wrote:

> On 2015-12-24, soko.tica <soko.t...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've succesfully installed today the latest i386 snapshot on a usb flash
> > disk (on amd64 box), but the packages (e.g. links+, xfe ) report
> unresolved
> > dependencies and bad major. This is strange, since it is supposed that
> > older packages run on fresh -current install.
>
> It's normal that this happens from time to time with snapshots after a
> library update, it takes time to build packages, sign them and get them
> out to the mirrors.
>
> If you want to avoid this, watch source-changes and hold off on updating
> for a couple of days after a shared-library bump in base or X (commits
> involving shlib_version files). Increase "couple of days" in relation
> to the machine speed for slower arches.
>
>
Additionally, packages go through bulk builds before committing to the
ports tree. This might also cause a mismatch in the library versions. So
the bottom line is: the packages can be out of sync, try again later...

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