Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 18:22:10 -0700 From: dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>, Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com>, Joseph Mallett <jmallett@newgold.net> Subject: How to tell ports to work on FreeBSD 3.x Message-ID: <20010513182210.G58926@dell.dannyland.org> In-Reply-To: <20010513140646.B63072@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Sun, May 13, 2001 at 02:06:47PM -0700 References: <20010509140838.C17000@dell.dannyland.org> <200105100026.RAA04754@usr06.primenet.com> <20010509180154.E17000@dell.dannyland.org> <p05100308b7203779c364@[194.78.241.123]> <20010510143702.A84503@rapier.smartspace.co.za> <20010513140646.B63072@xor.obsecurity.org>
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On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 02:06:47PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:37:03PM +0200, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote: > > > I've brought up the fact we could easily support 3.x machines for the > > ports tree (ie, building from source, not packages built on later > > releaess) with an upgrade package on the ports list, but I was met with > > silence. [...] > Perhaps you meant to say "*I* could easily support 3.x machines". > Most ports committers have little motivation to do the extra work of > supporting the old releases, but if you're willing to support it > yourself thats an entirely different story. *raises hand* I'm willing to tell people how to tell their ports collection to at least try and compile current ports on their less-than-one-year-old operating system. Here's what it looks like: While the ports tree is maintained for FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE and 4.3-STABLE, many ports will still build and install just fine on older version of FreeBSD. If you find the "move your machine through a major version upgrade" instructions at http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ to be impractical for you at this time, simply type the following: sysctl -n kern.osreldate > /var/db/port.mkversion [ Some rewording is needed for the following paragraph. ] Bear in mind that many uptight people frown on this behaviour, and that your ancient Operating System is soooo 2000, so if you find that the ports system has gone and destroyed your machine, it is because you've not heeded our warnings and pretended you knew what you were doing. We TOLD you to just run your box through a major OS upgrade! IMO, this should just be posted at http://www.freebsd.org/ports/. -danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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