Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:00:01 -0600 From: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> To: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it O.K. to use the 7.0 ports tree on 6.3 ? Message-ID: <47472331.4020809@math.missouri.edu> In-Reply-To: <E1Ivdgm-000Oq2-II@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> References: <E1Ivdgm-000Oq2-II@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
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Pete French wrote: > I have a set of machines running 7.0 and a set running 6.3 which I > would like to use the same ports on. I was under the impression that > there was only one ports tree, so is it safe to simply untar the > ports.tgz file from 7.0 on the 6.3 machines, rename INDEX-7 to INDEX-6 > and install away, or are there more subtle differences to tran the unwary ? > > cheers, > > -pcf. I think that they are the same, except INDEX-6 and INDEX-7 differ. So do your tar-untaring, and then do make fetchindex on the 6.3 machine(s).
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