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From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To: edward.ing@utoronto.ca
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Subject: Re: Current Ports and Ports 2.1.7 ports.
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On Sun, 15 Jun 1997 edward.ing@utoronto.ca wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sun, 15 Jun 1997, Nadav Eiron wrote:
> 
> > mistaken, you can always (I think) use CVSup to fetch from the CVS tree
> > the ports collection at any point in time, including that of any release
> > you may require (never tried this, so I might be wrong here ).
> > 
> 
> I wrote incorrectly. What I meant to say is that if there are more
> recent ports than that which was released along with 2.1.7, is there
> an archive which contains these more recent ports to an earlier version 
> of freebsd.
> 
> 
You can always try a current port. I don't know of any updated ports 
targeted specifically at 2.1.7, but most products will compile with newer 
ports and/or out of the box.

Nadav