From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 29 15:34:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA15165 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 15:34:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.DPCSYS.com [209.25.4.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA15157 for ; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 15:34:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id WAA14347; Tue, 29 Apr 1997 22:34:20 GMT Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 15:34:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: Bob cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The ports collection... In-Reply-To: <336646ED.2E5C@aol.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Bob wrote: > I guess the real question is, Where can I get HylaFax for Free BSD? ftp://ftp.sgi.com/sgi/fax/source/ current version is hylafax-v4.0pl1-tar.gz I don't think it's very realistic to expect that the ports could somehow be magically synched with the sources for software that is under active development. For older stuff that's been stable for a year or so you should be fine. (and there's lots of that) Also, some packages do keep old versions around for a long time, you may want to ask the authors of the packages you've had problems with to consider doing that. But that increases the author's support questions so it may not happen. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82