From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 28 0:45:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from boris.netgate.net (boris.netgate.net [204.145.147.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E095337B7BC for ; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:45:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wellsian@caffeine.com) Received: from localhost (wellsian@localhost) by boris.netgate.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id AAA43961; Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:44:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wellsian@caffeine.com) Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 00:44:45 -0800 (PST) From: wellsian X-Sender: wellsian@boris.netgate.net To: Hayden Katzenellenbogen Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CvsUp System now too old. In-Reply-To: <38BA324A.60A47FD6@tudogs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I hate to post things from the archives, but here you go: On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 at 19:06:42 -0500, Forrest Aldrich wrote: > WTF is this all about, on a freshly CVSup'd build/installworld: > > ===> ssh-2.0.12 : Your system is too old to use this bsd.port.mk. > You need a fresh make world or an upgrade kit. Please go to > http://www.freebsd.org/ports/ or a mirror site and follow the > instructions. > Do what it says. Go to http://www.freebsd.org/ports/, download the upgrade kit, and pkg_add it. This was added because of the vast amount of questions about the 'fetch -A' option causing port compiles to puke and people not knowing the upgrade kits existed. If you're tracking the latest ports, you'll need the upgrade kit in order to use them if you're running -RELEASE or -STABLE. I think Satoshi made the message pretty self explanatory ;) -- Jim Mock System Administrator jim@corp.au.triax.com ,-._|\ FreeBSD work: Triax Internet Services http://www.triax.com/ / \ The personal: http://www.triax.com/~jim/ \_,--._/ Power To The FreeBSD 'zine http://www.freebsdzine.org/ v Serve! ---- You can find several of these answers, with varying harshness, in the freebsd-questions archive. You could search for "cvsup your system is too old" at: http://www.freebsd.org/search/search.html#mailinglists Or, just to go the link mentioned () and be done with it. "Use the tools, Luke!" :) Dave On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Hayden Katzenellenbogen wrote: > Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 10:31:06 +0200 > From: Hayden Katzenellenbogen > To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG > Subject: CvsUp System now too old. > > I am running FreeBSD 3.3-release from the walnut creek cdrom I bought a > month or 3 ago. I recently installed CvsUp and think it is the best > progam ever as it saves me having to keep my ports collection up to date > on a port by port basis. > > I though now have a problem after three months of running this my > machine now states every time I try and install a port. > > ===> less-346 : Your system is too old to use this bsd.port.mk. You > need a fresh make world or an upgrade kit. Please go to > http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ or a mirror site and follow the > instructions. > > I have no idea what to do about this so I have reinstalled re-run cvsup > and the problem is the same. > > Please tell me how to fix this. > > Thanks > > Hayden > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message