Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 07:31:05 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@kot.ne.mediaone.net> To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> Cc: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with linux_base-6.1 Message-ID: <200001151231.HAA13501@rtfm.newton> In-Reply-To: <3880386E.A83AB6BA@scc.nl> from Marcel Moolenaar at "Jan 15, 2000 10:05:50 am"
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Marcel Moolenaar once stated:
=Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote:
=>
=> In that case, I can't put them in the upgrade kits, can you modify
=> the port to check ${OSVERSION} and exit with a message if the user's
=> system is too old?
=
=Is that necessary? The ports collection isn't designed for older
=systems. Most of the ports will work anyway, but some of them don't.
AFAIU, since we have a single ports collection, a port is supposed to
work on every version (not sure about 2.2.x) or, if it can not -- say
so. In this case, IMHO, there should be two ports -- linux_base (with
the 5.x) and linux_base6 -- for the latest stuff. That's the user's twi
pennies.
-mi
=People running into problems now should be running -stable, not 3.4
=release or older, right?
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