From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Nov 5 20:18:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA14610 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 20:18:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from earth.anet-stl.com (earth.anet-stl.com [209.83.128.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA14545 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 20:18:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from doogie@earth.anet-stl.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.anet-stl.com [127.0.0.1]) by earth.anet-stl.com (VMailer) with SMTP id 756C07826; Thu, 5 Nov 1998 22:17:50 -0600 (CST) Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 22:17:50 -0600 (CST) From: Jason Young To: da5id@simons-rock.edu Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with Ports In-Reply-To: <36427565.AEDA329E@simons-rock.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 5 Nov 1998 da5id@simons-rock.edu wrote: > Jason Young wrote: > > You installed a 3.0 binary package on a 2.2.7 box (I did the same thing > > myself a couple times, I have mixed server versions around the office > > and forgot). > > How does one prevent this? Uh, don't install 3.0 packages on a 2.2 box? Don't get packages from ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/3.0-release/packages, instead get them from 2.2.7-release/packages. Sysinstall defaults to doing this correctly unless you deliberately change it. Alternately, build them yourself from /usr/ports. Jason Young ANET Chief Network Engineer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message