Quick "where to post" question

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cp256

I have been a admin/user of FreeBSD since v2.15. I love FreeBSD and I am an evangelist for it. As FBSD 13 was EOLed I had to upgrade to 14. What a crapshow! The upgrade appeared to go smoothly, but what happened to my packages? The db didn't convert and I've wasted all day getting everything back into sync again with git. I need to vent about it, but I don't want to piss off the site admins and get booted and/or banned. Where can I do this?
 
Well, you just did vent, didn't you? If by "venting" you mean explaining what happened to you in more detail without profanities, I guess the Installing and Upgrading BSD Forum is the place. If you don't insult anyone and you don't curse, and you don't engage in a long and bitter back-and-forth with anyone, you'll have no problem with the admins. They are quite reasonable and laissez-faire.
 
A good idea might be to dump the sql pkgdb. Why do we need a specific data format to see what's installed while everything else is just text?
If it's gone, much more community package utilities will appear... Not if you have to learn a database query language for only basic package management, which isn't much more than placing files on the correct location.
 
Kai Burghardt said:
Use the venting device /dev/null(4): 🤬​
Bash: 
cat > /dev/null << 'EOT'
FreeBSD sucks!
EOT
Constructive criticism is of course appreciated.​
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It's also a personality thing without being constructive. I need to get mad about a lot to get things done. Just keep it in the area of computers. Everything is designed stupid. 😆
 
Kai Burghardt said:
Constructive criticism
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Personally, I don't believe in such a thing. Criticism is criticism. The OP can explain themselves politely and they'll have no problem. It's not about criticism so much as it is about sharing experiences and seeing what others have to say. Perhaps they could have gone another route and they wouldn't have had the problems they did have.

The mystery now is, though: will the OP open the anticipated more detailed thread or will they not? I bet they won't. I bet they have just satiated their venting hunger.

Anyhow, this is one of those threads that allows for digressing, which is so necessary to keep this place entertaining.

drhowarddrfine said:
And this is your first post here?
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It's not obligatory to use the Forums in order to use FreeBSD. I'm sure there are a lot of people who do the latter and not the former.
 
MG said:
A good idea might be to dump the sql pkgdb. Why do we need a specific data format to see what's installed while everything else is just text?
If it's gone, much more community package utilities will appear... Not if you have to learn a database query language for only basic package management, which isn't much more than placing files on the correct location.
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This makes a lot of sense.

I wonder what the history behind the sql pkgbd is.
 
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