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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Reply-To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To: William Wong <wwong@wiley.csusb.edu>
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Subject: Re: ports-current and 2.2-stable
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On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, William Wong wrote:

> Greetings!
> 
> Are there any caveats to using ports-current for the 2.2-stable branch?

The ports there are patched to use functions and such from -CURRENT which
may not have made it back to 2.2 yet.  At worst, the port won't build
because of a missing header/library/function call.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major