From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 5 17:23:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA04428 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 17:23:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cerebus.nectar.com (nectar-gw.nectar.com [204.0.249.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA04423 for ; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 17:23:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by cerebus.nectar.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id TAA16913; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 19:22:50 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: from spawn.nectar.com(10.0.0.101) by cerebus.nectar.com via smap (V2.1) id xma016911; Sat, 5 Dec 98 19:22:47 -0600 Received: from spawn.nectar.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spawn.nectar.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA56506; Sat, 5 Dec 1998 19:22:47 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nectar@spawn.nectar.com) Message-Id: <199812060122.TAA56506@spawn.nectar.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 X-PGP-RSAfprint: 00 F9 E6 A2 C5 4D 0A 76 26 8B 8B 57 73 D0 DE EE X-PGP-RSAkey: http://www.nectar.com/nectar-pgp262.txt From: Jacques Vidrine In-reply-to: <199812060005.RAA02255@freeway.dcfinc.com> References: <199812060005.RAA02255@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: Re-phrase of simple (?dumb) q. about ports Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: chad@DCFinc.com cc: myke@ees.com (Mike Holling), kjhmdjd@ix.netcom.com, Freebsd-Stable@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 19:22:47 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 5 December 1998 at 17:05, "Chad R. Larson" wrote: > But the question is still a good one. If a machine is running 2.2.7 > (for example), it makes sense to cvsup the ports collection as of the > time that version was released. > > Elsewise, you're gonna run into ELF vs a.out and other such > confusions. Not true. In fact, quite the opposite. The ports tree at the time of 2.2.7, say, may have many ports that no longer function do to changes in the applications. Often old versions don't hang around, for example. When you CVSup the ports collection, you always want the head revision. Ports should work on both a.out and ELF systems. If they don't, they are broken. Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message