From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Oct 17 21:49: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from guru.phone.net (guru.phone.net [216.240.39.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 30D1914CFD for ; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 21:49:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@phone.net) Received: (qmail 68064 invoked by uid 100); 18 Oct 1999 04:48:58 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Oct 1999 04:48:58 -0000 Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 21:48:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Meyer To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Patches breaking? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: ;->On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Mike Meyer wrote: ;->> I haven't. I'm running the ports package (and the rest of the system) ;->> as installed off of the 3.2-RELEASE CDROMS. ;->Did you unpack over the top of an existing /usr/ports? Sounds like you've ;->got stale patches lying around which were removed in the 3.2-R ports ;->snapshot. Try blowing away the patches directory and reextracting it from ;->the CD. Bingo. Thank you. That's why I reported it here, instead of filing a PR - I figured I'd done something wrong. Everything seems to be building and installing fine at this point. ;->Be aware that by not tracking the ports collection you miss things like ;->security fixes which get applied to various ports. You shouldn't have any ;->trouble running 3.2-R with an updated ports collection, especially if you ;->apply the upgrade kit (see www.freebsd.org/ports). Yes, I'm well aware of that. I tried tracking ports alone, until I was told that I needed to track -STABLE as well. That was a bit further from -RELEASE than we are now, though. Tracking -STABLE and my paranoia about backups don't work well together. I sleep better knowing I can recreate the entire system from backups, and tracking -STABLE causes fulls to be needed far to often. So I started tracking the things that I need to stay current with from the source, and use ports for things that can be updated at the same intervals as the system. I also follow the freebsd security and CERT lists, and will do an upgrade for security reasons should I need that. Thanx,