From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 24 07:30:26 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA08958 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 07:30:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from jbrann.dialup.access.net (jbrann.dialup.access.net [166.84.193.118]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id HAA08947 for ; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 07:30:22 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jbrann@localhost) by jbrann.dialup.access.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) id KAA01500; Sun, 24 Mar 1996 10:28:41 -0500 Message-Id: <199603241528.KAA01500@jbrann.dialup.access.net> Subject: Re: Using Current-ports on 2.1.0-R To: jbarrm@panix.com (Barry Masterson) Date: Sun, 24 Mar 1996 10:28:39 -0500 (EST) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from Barry Masterson at "Mar 24, 96 08:19:54 am" From: John Brann Reply-To: John Brann Organisation: Not while I'm at home X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL13 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Barry Masterson wrote... > Hi, > > Just a quick question here. Will I have to make any modifications > to my 2.1.0-R kernel, and/or system in order to install the ports > that are in the FreeBSD-current directory at wcarchive? > > Thanks, > > Barry Masterson > jbarrm@panix.com > >--->--->--->--->--->---> > FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE > <---<---<---<---<---<---< > Hi Barry, No hard and fast rules. Generally it should be OK - I do it all the time. But it's always possible that a port relies on some feature you don't yet have. Suck it and see. :-) John -- Beavis and Butt-Head; Vladimir and Estragon for the '90s. finger jbrann@panix.com for pgp public key