From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 21 12:43:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2942016A4CE for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 12:43:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from bittern.mail.pas.earthlink.net (bittern.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.119]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2240E43D1D for ; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 12:43:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rperry4@earthlink.net) Received: from dialup-65.59.98.233.dial1.weehawken1.level3.net ([65.59.98.233] helo=earthlink.net) by bittern.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1Audz7-0002kt-00; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 12:44:26 -0800 Message-ID: <4037C306.6050805@earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 15:43:50 -0500 From: Bob Perry User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040208 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Problem Resolved re: Porstdb -uU Continues to Fail? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2004 20:43:30 -0000 -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Porstdb -uU Continues to Fail? Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:55:48 -0500 From: Bob Perry To: Kris Kennaway CC: FreeBSD-Questions References: <402A6B2D.90003@earthlink.net> <20040211181223.GC69094@xor.obsecurity.org> <402A742C.8070607@earthlink.net> <20040211183106.GA94537@xor.obsecurity.org> Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 01:27:56PM -0500, Bob Perry wrote: > > > >>>You need to update to 4.9-RELEASE, which has a newer make(1). >>> >>>Kris >>> >>> >>> >>> >>Thanks for such a quick response Ken. Do I understand you to say this is >>the only solution? >> >> > >For now, yes. It's possible the authors of those ports (or another >committer) could change them to allow index to be built on older >releases, but they're not obliged to (see >http://www.freebsd.org/ports) for support information. > >Kris > > So I see. Guess I'll pull out my notes and prepare for the update this weekend. Thanks again. Bob Perry -- FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p13 0# Hello, This is just an update to a previous problem. Portsdb -uU ran successfully following upgrade from 4.8 to 4.9. Thanks Bob Perry -- FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p2 #0