Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2004 13:34:43 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: rbmailer-dev@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't cvsup ports? Message-ID: <20040707203443.GA2249@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20040707202920.15304.qmail@web12007.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040707200227.GA31307@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20040707202920.15304.qmail@web12007.mail.yahoo.com>
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--YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 01:29:20PM -0700, rbmailer-dev@yahoo.com wrote: > --- Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> wrote: > > First of all, it is strongly recommened that you use ports-all without > > a refuse file. It will save you pain if you want to build an INDEX > > later. > > > Hm. What's an INDEX? Some abbreviated lookup mechanism? Don't see it > in the Handbook. /usr/ports/INDEX. Generated with "make index" or "portsdb -U", or with recent trees, you can download a mostly up to date one with "make fetchindex". > > Second, and more importantly there is no RELENG_4_9 tag. It's > > RELEASE_4_9_0 for ports (though you probably don't want a tag at all > > since that will result in an out of date ports collection which contains > > known security problems.) > >=20 > Ah. Of course. That explains why nothing's coming. Ok. >=20 > Question on the current vs. RELEASE_4_9_x, though - I'm still on 4.9 & > don't want to upgrade to 4.10, right now. If I get current ports, won't > there (possibly) be 4.10 dependencies? Not sure I want that... No, there will not be 4.10 deps. You may need to install some ports you wouldn't if your base OS where up to date, but everything should work. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA7F5iXY6L6fI4GtQRArDwAJ4jvW5mkNFZgJ/UAbVY0jpSJVj4owCdFtBg 8fo/ZYayaTUVk21ga4sg6wE= =HFOf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --YiEDa0DAkWCtVeE4--
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