Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:44:42 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Chris Stankevitz <cstankevitz@toyon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Packages available for different FreeBSD versions Message-ID: <20090817214442.GA4135@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <4A89BD3E.8020804@toyon.com> References: <4A89BD3E.8020804@toyon.com>
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On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 01:27:42PM -0700, Chris Stankevitz wrote:
>=20
> Hello,
>=20
> Hello, I have two questions:
>=20
> 1. Is it true that I have the choice to run these versions of FreeBSD:
>=20
> 8.0 CURRENT
> 7.2 RELEASE
> 7.2 STABLE
> 7.2 CURRENT
> 7.1 RELEASE
> 7.1 STABLE
> 7.1 CURRENT
> 7.0 RELEASE
> 7.0 STABLE
> 7.0 CURRENT
> 6.4 RELEASE
> 6.4 STABLE
> 6.4 CURRENT
More or less. You can run any version you can get a CD of or that you can
check out of the source repository. But not all of them are
supported. Currently 6.4 and 7.2 are supported, and 8.0 is in beta.=20
=20
> 2. For each of the versions above, what version of GCC and VirtualBox is=
=20
> available?=20
The ports tree in general is not tied to a particular version of FreeBSD. B=
ut
some ports might be. Particularly, virtualbox requires 7.x. From
/usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox/Makefile:
=2Eif ${OSVERSION} < 700000
BROKEN=3D Does not compile on FreeBSD 6.X
=2Eendif
> I don't intend for this questions to directly be answered --=20
> I'm hoping for a site that lists the versions of all packages available=
=20
> for a particular version of FreeBSD like this page for gentoo:=20
AFAIK, packages for a release are built from a snapshot of the ports system
taken at the moment that a release is made. You can find these on FTP serve=
rs,
e.g. ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.2-release/
for 7.2 release on the i386 platform. You should of course use a mirror that
is close to you. Not all ports are available as packages, for several possi=
ble
reasons. Virtualbox is only available in the packages for 7-stable.
If you want to be on the bleeding edge, you'll probably want to compile por=
ts
=66rom source.
Roland
--=20
R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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