From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Dec 6 20:08:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA11799 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 20:08:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from n4hhe.ampr.org (tnt1-239.HiWAAY.net [208.147.147.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA11781 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 20:08:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Received: from n4hhe.ampr.org (localhost.ampr.org [127.0.0.1]) by n4hhe.ampr.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA27536 for ; Sun, 6 Dec 1998 21:19:57 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Message-Id: <199812070319.VAA27536@n4hhe.ampr.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Freebsd-Stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Re-phrase of simple (?dumb) q. about ports In-reply-to: Message from Mike Holling of "Sat, 05 Dec 1998 17:04:41 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 06 Dec 1998 21:19:57 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Holling writes: > I've been cvsupping ports on my 2.2.6 box for a while without incident. I > believe the makefiles check to see what version of FreeBSD you're running > (3.x vs. 2.x), though I haven't poked at them much. Ditto. I have had problems over the years with the current ports and older -stable but almost all of those were cured by checking out the latest -stable version of /usr/src/share/mk and installing it. Speaking of which, "cd /usr/ports; make clean" breaks somewhere on my 2.2.7-stable machine this week. Guess its time to try my own medicine. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message