From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Jul 9 17:21:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA22615 for ports-outgoing; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 17:21:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cais.cais.com (root@cais.com [199.0.216.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA22590 for ; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 17:20:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from earth.mat.net (root@earth.mat.net [205.252.122.1]) by cais.cais.com (8.8.5/CJKv1.99-CAIS) with SMTP id UAA11953; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 20:20:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from Journey2.mat.net (journey2.mat.net [205.252.122.116]) by earth.mat.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA05199; Wed, 9 Jul 1997 20:20:41 -0400 Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 20:20:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@Journey2.mat.net To: Christophe Brajon cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Compatibility between releases of freeBSD ports In-Reply-To: <33C3D51E.4203@hol.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-ports@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Christophe Brajon wrote: > I have recently imported the port for xcannon game. When we executed > the program our file system /usr/bin has been completely destroyed. > Thanks to the brave old Unix (and Free-BSD) we recovered from this > painfull situation. > However we now hesitate to import any more ports from the Free-BSD ftp > site, being afraid of a similar punishment! > Our release is Free BSD 2.1.6 and we would like to know whether it is > possible to install any POSTERIOR ports release software version. > We've never had a report like this, not a single one. Since we don't have a port of the xcannon game, this makes me doubly skeptical about your claim. Could you maybe be just a little more complete in describing where you got the software and what you did that caused all that lossage? > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 3.0 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------