From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 11 21:50:05 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC35C1065678 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:50:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 951D58FC1D for ; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:50:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 6754 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2009 21:50:05 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 11 Jun 2009 21:50:04 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id D47585084F; Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:50:03 -0400 (EDT) To: Peter Clark , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4A3159B3.5090009@mtmary.edu> <4A316C54.3040409@otenet.gr> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:50:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A316C54.3040409@otenet.gr> (Manolis Kiagias's message of "Thu\, 11 Jun 2009 23\:43\:00 +0300") Message-ID: <44zlcephis.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Subject: Re: Make Question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 21:50:06 -0000 Manolis Kiagias writes: >> I have inherited an old FreeBSD 5.1 machine(5.1-RELEASE-p18). I >> realize that the short answer to my question is more than likely to >> upgrade the OS to a current release and I would if I had that option >> right now, but I do not. I needed to upgrade the perl/openssh/openssl >> implementation on this box. My first thought was to use the port on >> the machine that was from that era but make fails. So then I thought >> to csup the ports tree and try with a new version, that fails as well. >> The error is as follows: >> > > 5.1 (in fact all 5.X) has reached EOL. The latest ports tree won't > compile stuff for 5.X. Use the following line in your ports-supfile to > get the last ports tree that was supported in 5.X: > > *default release=cvs tag=RELEASE_5_EOL > > instead of > > *default release=cvs tag=. > > Still, since this is going to be really old you may still have problems > (missing distfiles and so on). But is worth trying if you must stay with > 5.X for whatever reason. One thing it won't do is get you any of the bug fixes to the ssh port. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/