From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 28 07:26:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5600A16A485; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:26:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ade@lovett.com) Received: from mail.lovett.com (foo.lovett.com [67.134.38.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D80443D4C; Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:26:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ade@lovett.com) Received: from hellfire.canal.lovett.com ([172.16.32.20]:55334) by mail.lovett.com with esmtpa (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1FDzFE-0009Vj-HX; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:26:04 -0800 In-Reply-To: <4403F473.8010404@kelleycows.com> References: <440377FF.4020502@kelleycows.com> <4403F473.8010404@kelleycows.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Ade Lovett Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 23:25:36 -0800 To: Christopher Kelley X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Sender: ade@lovett.com Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, Ade Lovett Subject: Re: libtool note in UPDATING X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 07:26:05 -0000 On Feb 27, 2006, at 22:57 , Christopher Kelley wrote: > Which is, in fact, the solution I think I'm going to take. I had > planned on upgrading my last machine from 5.4 to 6.1 anyway, so > that one wasn't a concern, but I had hoped to avoid the reinstall > for my other (unfortunately very much slower) machines. Note that you can use the ports infrastructure, and bolt-ons like portupgrade, to build local packages on your fast machines, then copy them over to the slower boxes and pkg_add them. -aDe