Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 19:27:29 -0600 From: dannyman <dannyman@dannyland.org> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: Brett Taylor <brett@peloton.physics.montana.edu>, Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>, Adam Turoff <aturoff@isinet.com>, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bsd vs. linux and NT chart Message-ID: <19990302192729.D15210@stumpy.dannyland.org> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990302181700.00c56d10@localhost>; from Brett Glass on Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 06:17:44PM -0700 References: <4.1.19990302161355.00ad66b0@localhost> <4.1.19990302154522.03fb3730@localhost> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9903021551210.19678-100000@peloton.physics.m <4.1.19990302161355.00ad66b0@localhost> <19990302184424.C15210@stumpy.dannyland.org> <4.1.19990302181700.00c56d10@localhost>
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On Tue, Mar 02, 1999 at 06:17:44PM -0700, Brett Glass wrote: > At 06:44 PM 3/2/99 -0600, dannyman wrote: > > >Ugh, that's when you go to the bloody config screen and change your RELEASE > >to 2.2.8. > > And find out that the port is old and buggy because they're only maintaining > things in ELF now and you can't run FreeBSD ELFs. Uhhhh, no ... if you try to install something for 2.2.8, you're not going to get any ELFs. That's why we have -RELEASE versions. If you can't get the 2.2.6 ports dist, then the 2.2.8 ports dist should work just fine. This point was made earlier in the thread, though I don't know why I had bothered to read that far in ... -danny -- dannyman - http://www.dannyland.org/~dannyman/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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