Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:05:41 +0100 (CET) From: Espen Skoglund <esk@ira.uka.de> To: Trevor Johnson <trevor@jpj.net> Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, Michael Collette <metrol@earthlink.net>, ports <ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Ports vs. Source updating Message-ID: <14961.30245.877147.277890@i30nb2.ira.uka.de> In-Reply-To: <200101260434480.10623-100000@blues.jpj.net> References: <20010126105751.A92382@rapier.smartspace.co.za> <200101260434480.10623-100000@blues.jpj.net>
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[Trevor Johnson] > If he installs > ftp://releng4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/4.2-20010125-STABLE/ports/ports.tgz > and > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/Latest/41upgrade.tgz > and does: > # echo 20001103 > /var/db/port.mkversion > will it work without an update to 4-STABLE? Considering that the 41upgrade.tgz writes a more recent date to port.mkversion, this last step shouldn't really be necessary, should it? As for the problem of getting the installation up to -STABLE, the make command will actually complain and say: ``Your system is too old to use this bsd.port.mk. You need a fresh make world or an upgrade kit. Please go to http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ or a mirror site and follow the instructions.'' This message actually tells you what to do. The only gripe I have about it is that it might be better to mention the upgrade kit option _before_ make world. Running the upgrade kit is after all considerably easier and less time consuming than a make world, and to make this even cleared one might consider to put ``or a fresh make world'' in parantheses. (And of course, someone should point out on the referenced web page that the 4.1 upgrade kit also works for 4.2-RELEASE). eSk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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