Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 20:54:59 -0700 From: Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: updating ports to HEAD Message-ID: <CAN6yY1tMiJNA4a43yKzurqfQpMoY%2BKcOuW9%2BVR9K_b3%2Bqx0kOQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130401144605.GA3932@tinyCurrent> References: <20130401144605.GA3932@tinyCurrent>
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On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a FreeBSD 10-CURRENT as of: > > $ uname -a > FreeBSD aurora.Sisis.de 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #0 r235646: Sat > May 19 15:52:36 CEST 2012 guru@aurora.Sisis.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC > i386 > > and I want to update /usr/ports with SVN to HEAD and compile the stuff I > need; > > Is there something in the base system of r235646 which would not allow > to do so, i.e. which is to old for HEAD of ports? > I'm not quite sure what you mean by "update /usr/ports with SVN to HEAD", since ports does not branch, so any time you "svn up /usr/potrts", it is updated to head. Any version of FreeBSD 8 or newer should work fine with ports/head. Note that some ports will need to be compiled with gcc as not all will work with clang. Are you having a problem updating (or checking out) head or with some of the ports after the update? -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com
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