Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 09:15:26 -0400 From: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org> To: chad@DCFinc.com Cc: Andrey Lakhno <land@dnepr.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: recent ports on 2.2.8-R Message-ID: <39B4F1EE.D75B397D@mitre.org> References: <200009030056.RAA08612@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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"Chad R. Larson" wrote: > Finally, you could CVSup "ports-all" with a date that matches the > release of 2.2.8. In other words, not the current tree, but as it > existed then. You'll need "tag=." and "date=1998.12.31.00.00.00" (or > something close to that) in your cvsupfile. That will get you a set of > ports that will almost certainly build. But you'll miss newly added > ports and bug fixes. Plus many of the ports will not compile simply because they point to older versions of the source code that the authors did not keep on their ftp site. You're almost certainly better off keeping your ports tree current and handbuilding anything that doesn't work with the port. -- _ _ _ ___ ____ ___ ______________________________________ / \/ \ | ||_ _|| _ \|___| | Jason Andresen -- jandrese@mitre.org / /\/\ \ | | | | | |/ /|_|_ | Views expressed may not reflect those /_/ \_\|_| |_| |_|\_\|___| | of the Mitre Corporation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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