From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 9 13:56:47 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from newgold.net (usr.srcsys.org [209.42.222.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 72DCC37B424 for ; Wed, 9 May 2001 13:56:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmallett@newgold.net) Received: (qmail 18872 invoked by uid 1000); 9 May 2001 20:53:50 -0000 Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 16:53:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Joseph Mallett To: dannyman Cc: , Subject: Re: question/rant: upgrade kit for 3.x ports?! In-Reply-To: <20010509135202.B17000@dell.dannyland.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Make a package from the port, and install it on the boxes that can't build. What's the problem with doing it that way? -- [ Joseph Mallett ] [ http://srcsys.org ] [ xMach Core Team xMach: Proactively Unbloated Microkernel BSD ] [ Proud {Free,Net}BSD User; (Obj)C(++) Programmer ] [ http://xMach.org ] On Wed, 9 May 2001, dannyman wrote: > Does someone have the "upgrade your 3.x system so it can still use ports > package" available SOMEWHERE? > > Okay, so I can understand that 3.x "isn't supported" > > But no upgrade kit for the ports tree? When there USED to be? > > No old package repositories? > > What does a person do when they want to reinstall postfix on their 3.5-RELEASE > machine? "make world"?! AUGHGHG!!! > > I have a box that had a screwed up Postfix installation, so I deleted the > package, and went to ports to rebuild it, and it tells me I need an upgrade > kit, which I remember USED TO BE available, so HALF of my 3.x boxes can still > use ports, the other half can't. And now if I want to reinstall Postfix on > this machine I get to fetch and build the tarballs myself. > > Well, except that HALF of my 3.x machines can still use ports and build a > package for it. > > That sucks. > > Grrr. > > Thanks, > -danny > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message