From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 17 21:44:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BFCE106564A for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:44:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.33]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD5F48FC65 for ; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:44:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr13.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n7HLign7024186; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:44:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8FAB2BA90; Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:44:42 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:44:42 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Chris Stankevitz Message-ID: <20090817214442.GA4135@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <4A89BD3E.8020804@toyon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4A89BD3E.8020804@toyon.com> X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Packages available for different FreeBSD versions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:44:45 -0000 --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkqJz0oACgkQEnfvsMMhpyUKQACfeq2uwrZSQsZzF/g+rkeBP4Qj cdcAn15YeK0WeIzDie+R78vx3GRNfIrQ =jBwQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT--