Date: Sat, 05 Dec 1998 19:22:47 -0600 From: Jacques Vidrine <n@nectar.com> To: chad@DCFinc.com Cc: myke@ees.com (Mike Holling), kjhmdjd@ix.netcom.com, Freebsd-Stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Re-phrase of simple (?dumb) q. about ports Message-ID: <199812060122.TAA56506@spawn.nectar.com> In-Reply-To: <199812060005.RAA02255@freeway.dcfinc.com> References: <199812060005.RAA02255@freeway.dcfinc.com>
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On 5 December 1998 at 17:05, "Chad R. Larson" <chad@freeway.dcfinc.com> wrote: > But the question is still a good one. If a machine is running 2.2.7 > (for example), it makes sense to cvsup the ports collection as of the > time that version was released. > > Elsewise, you're gonna run into ELF vs a.out and other such > confusions. Not true. In fact, quite the opposite. The ports tree at the time of 2.2.7, say, may have many ports that no longer function do to changes in the applications. Often old versions don't hang around, for example. When you CVSup the ports collection, you always want the head revision. Ports should work on both a.out and ELF systems. If they don't, they are broken. Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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