From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 9 23:53:17 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 130E516A4DA for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 23:53:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from idmc_vivr@intgdev.com) Received: from omr6.networksolutionsemail.com (omr6.networksolutionsemail.com [205.178.146.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D13543D53 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 23:53:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from idmc_vivr@intgdev.com) Received: from mail.networksolutionsemail.com (ns-omr6.mgt.netsol.com [10.49.6.69]) by omr6.networksolutionsemail.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id k79NrEWF031949 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 19:53:15 -0400 Received: (qmail 2714 invoked by uid 78); 9 Aug 2006 23:53:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO webmail23) (205.178.146.50) by ns-omr6.lb.hosting.dc2.netsol.com with SMTP; 9 Aug 2006 23:53:14 -0000 Received: from 69.40.197.18 (idmc_vivr@intgdev.com [69.40.197.18]) by webmail23 (EdgeDesk 4.02) with WEBMAIL id 23146; Wed, 09 Aug 2006 23:53:14 +0000 From: "V.I.Victor" To: "Kris Kennaway" , "V.I.Victor" Importance: Normal Sensitivity: Normal Message-ID: X-Mailer: Mintersoft EdgeDesk, Build 4.03.0105 X-Originating-IP: [69.40.197.18] X-Forwarded-For: [(null)] Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 23:53:14 +0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_add 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: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 23:53:17 -0000 >-----Original Message----- >From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:kris@obsecurity.org] >Sent: Wednesday, August 9, 2006 03:02 PM > >On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 01:43:10PM +0000, V.I.Victor wrote: >> >> Generally -- is it OK to do a 'pkg_add' from >> 'packages-6-stable' to a 5.4 system? > >Absolutely not. > >> Specifically, I think I need to update 'fetchmail.' > >What's wrong with using packages-5-stable? :-) Probably nothing! I (wrongly) thought that *all* 5.x package/paths had the same version of = 'fetchmail' and when I found the new 'fetchmail' in 6.x I figured that wa= s where I had to get it. I'll try a 'pkg_add' from packages-5-stable as soon as I can stop the sys= tem for a while. Thanks for the pointer! Although I should probably have installed ports during the original insta= ll -- I didn't. Now, it seems a long way to go just to see if the newest= version of 'fetchmail' fixes its problem (I'm not confident it will) >> What I've read *seems* to indicate it's OK, but... > >Where did you read this, so we can try to correct the bogus advice? Hard to say. I did 6-8 Google searches with various keys trying to find = some specifics for adding packages between FreeBSD versions. The "*seems= *...OK" I mentioned may have been in relation to simple programs. I don'= t know. Since I was unable to find anything solid, I asked here! Again -- Thank-you.