From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 20 17:30:34 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B77516A4CF for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:30:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 619B843FEA for ; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:30:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id hAL1ULu27183; Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:30:21 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: Rahul Fernandez , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2003 17:30:20 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20031121010651.89362.qmail@web13503.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20031121010651.89362.qmail@web13503.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311201730.20570.kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: Can I install packages only for my release? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 01:30:34 -0000 On Thursday 20 November 2003 05:06 pm, Rahul Fernandez wrote: > Hi, I'm am running 4.9 release. A package called hpijs1.4.1 is > installed. I now would like to upgrade to hpijs-1.5. However, this > package is only available in 4.9-stable. Can I install the package > from 4.9-stable or is it advisable to stick to the packages in my > release? Thanks, Rahul > There is no such thing as a 4.9 port. There were ports that were snapshoted when 4.9 was released but the tag on ports is "." or head only. Go for it :) Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html