From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 5 8:28:24 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [169.237.7.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2048A14D32 for ; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 08:28:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (iras-2-5.ucdavis.edu [169.237.16.133]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA02983; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 08:24:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id IAA80572; Thu, 5 Aug 1999 08:24:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 08:24:36 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Corrado Cau Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Packages Message-ID: <19990805082436.A78080@dragon.nuxi.com> Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org References: <002801bedf27$c162f880$050aa8c0@0> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: <002801bedf27$c162f880$050aa8c0@0>; from Corrado Cau on Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 11:48:57AM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 1) Can I use the 3.2 packages with FreeBSD 4.0 or am I doing a stupid thing? Kinda. We provide different versions at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/ because of there are some library difference between 3.x and 4.0. Not to mention anything that grubs around in the kernel. > 2) In case I decide downloading the 4.0-current packages, how can I modify > the INDEX file given I'd have to split the packages on a couple of CDs? No > Rockridge extensions, please: I don't know how to use it. AFAIK, you will need Rockridge extensions if you want any of the automatic dependencies loading to work. It isn't that hard. Just use the "-r" switch to ``mkisofs'' when you burn the image. > BTW, the dependencies among packages are quite difficult to be guessed > off-line :-) The INDEX files tells the dependencies. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message