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Frank Laszlo wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 17:06, Forrest Aldrich wrote:
> 
>>RPM is up to version 4.x -- will the port be brought up-to-date?
 > read the Makefile in the ports dir. it should tell you what version it

He didn't ask whether the port is up to date or not. It isn't,
and the question shows he knows.

 > has. Why would you want to use RPMs in freebsd anyways?

For example to extract some archives which are provided as
rpm only?

Jens