From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 5 10:11:54 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85BBD16A4DA for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 10:11:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from mail.ipt.ru (mail.ipt.ru [80.253.10.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10F0343D45 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2006 10:11:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from srv.sem.ipt.ru ([192.168.12.1]) by mail.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.62 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1GKXuL-000BKy-3z for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:11:53 +0400 Received: from bsam by srv.sem.ipt.ru with local (Exim 4.63 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1GKXwz-0006wS-UZ for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:14:37 +0400 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20060904214442.GA12343@teddy.fas.com> <92987145@srv.sem.ipt.ru> <20060905054524.1AF7.GERARD@seibercom.net> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 14:14:37 +0400 In-Reply-To: <20060905054524.1AF7.GERARD@seibercom.net> (Gerard Seibert's message of "Tue, 05 Sep 2006 05:56:03 -0400") Message-ID: <05460018@srv.sem.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: portmanager port upgrade question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:11:54 -0000 On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 05:56:03 -0400 Gerard Seibert wrote: > Boris Samorodov wrote: > > > Can anyon tell me why this port is marked ignore? Has it been superseeded? > > > > You may consider reading /usr/ports/UPDATING. > > > > BTW, it's the right file to read from time to time and especially if > > you have questions about the port system. ;-) > The info you are searching for is in the file under the: 20060616 date > tag. Yes. > Personally, why a new source was not created so that anyone downloading Which type of source are you speaking of? > FreeBSD, and conversely not familiar with its workings, would not have > to go through this rigmarole is beyond me. If they wanted to keep a > clearly obsolete version around for what ever reason it should have been > so marked as such. If you meen linux_base-8 than it is marked as DEPRECATED and an EXPIRATION_DATE is set. > For someone doing a fresh install, there is no reason > to go this route, IMHO. The default port now is linux_base-fc4 and if someone tries to install any linux application from a portstree then the right linux port is installed. And yes, the portstree should be up ta date (note the system the OP asked was a fresh install as of two weeks ago). WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve