From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 24 12:25:33 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCFC916A418; Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:25:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from petefrench@ticketswitch.com) Received: from angel.ticketswitch.com (angel.ticketswitch.com [IPv6:2002:57e0:1d4e::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A43D13C458; Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:25:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from petefrench@ticketswitch.com) Received: from smaug.rattatosk ([10.50.50.2]) by angel.ticketswitch.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.67 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Ivu4i-000F51-Ga; Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:25:32 +0000 Received: from dilbert.rattatosk ([10.50.50.6] helo=dilbert.ticketswitch.com) by smaug.rattatosk with esmtp (Exim 4.67 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Ivu4i-000Gqe-Do; Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:25:32 +0000 Received: from petefrench by dilbert.ticketswitch.com with local (Exim 4.68 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1Ivu4i-0008Ur-DW; Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:25:32 +0000 To: dougb@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <4747A110.9090805@FreeBSD.org> Message-Id: From: Pete French Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:25:32 +0000 Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it O.K. to use the 7.0 ports tree on 6.3 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:25:33 -0000 > You've already received the right advice about not renaming the INDEX, > but I think it's also worth mentioning that untar'ing a static picture > of the ports tree is of little practical value unless you never plan > to update the base, and you never plan to update any ports on that > machine. Sorrty, but I do not understand this at all. Surely untarring the ports file is exactly what the installer does when you install BSD onto a machine? Why is doing it by hand any different ? > You're much better off starting with downloading the tree with csup, > that way you can maintain it more easily down the road. Won't running csup on the tree I just untarred work ? I use csup (and have used cvsup in the past) to update ports trees on machines I installed from CD, and it works fine. Unless the installer is doing something other than simply untarring that file I can't see why it isn't just going to work in the same way. In this case the point is moot as I am not going to update the ports tree on these machines at all - this is a temporary measure until I wipe them and upgrade them to 7.0 when it is released. Have upgraded one to 7.0 already to tryit out (works really nicely) but I just wanted the rest of the machines in the fram to be running the same versions in the interim few weeks until I upgrade them all. Thanks for the advice though, if it really doesnt work then thats definitely worth knowing! Might to some experiments to verity that though - sorry for being scepticle, but I am sure I have done this in the past and it worked fine. cheers, -pete.