Date: Sat, 13 May 2006 19:40:35 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Strick <strick@covad.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: dan@mist.nodomain Subject: Re: old program compatibility with FreeBSD 6.1 Message-ID: <200605140240.k4E2eZtM001183@mist.nodomain>
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[I may have missed some responses to my original posting because the "current" set of postings has been cleaned out but not yet installed in the mailing list archive.] I just installed FreeBSD 6.1, selecting "All" in the distributions selection menu, and discovered that the compat* distributions are no longer part of the standard distribution. I searched the RELNOTES and ERRATA for both 6.0 and 6.1 and found no mention of this. I have received email from someone (apparently a copy of one of the postings to freebsd-stable that I didn't see) suggesting that I install /usr/ports/misc/compat5x. Is this the official work-around? I see that there are also compat4x and compat3x ports in /usr/ports/misc. Is 1x, 20, 21, and 22 compatibility support gone forever? (Not that I would miss it. I only need 4x and 5x compatibility.) Dan Strick
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