From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 24 17:21:51 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3703037B401 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:21:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BAB643E4A for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:21:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.int (mail@pooh.int [10.0.1.2]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id g8P0Lk1n019075 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 19:21:47 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from kirk by pooh.int with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 17tzw2-0004O4-00 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 19:21:46 -0500 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: gzip packages on FreeBSD 4-STABLE References: From: Kirk Strauser Date: 24 Sep 2002 19:21:46 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <87znu66hr9.fsf@pooh.int> Lines: 13 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 2002-09-25T00:05:47Z, "John Daniels" writes: > In essence, 1) there is no backward compatibility, right? so 2) will it be > possible to 'upgrade' an older FreeBSD version to bzip2 without upgrading > the system as a whole? If I'm not mistaken, aren't packages the result of ports that have been compiled? Would it be difficult to upgrade those old machines with ports instead of packages from now on? -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message