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Date:      Sat, 20 Jan 2001 15:42:17 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Conrad Sabatier <cjsabatier@home.com>
Cc:        Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com>, FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cannot build ports - too old for bsd.port.mk?
Message-ID:  <20010120154217.H53292@citusc17.usc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010120140526.A6526@home.com>; from cjsabatier@home.com on Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 02:05:26PM -0600
References:  <001001c0830c$4fa78a00$0c00a8c0@amgroupadmin.com> <20010120123236.A3485@northernbrewer.com> <20010120140526.A6526@home.com>

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On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 02:05:26PM -0600, Conrad Sabatier wrote:

> A simple "echo 20001103 > /var/db/.mkversion" and
> "echo 20001103 > /var/db/pkg/port.mkversion" did
> the trick.
>=20
> Perhaps the "make update" target in /usr/ports/Makefile should take care=
=20
> of this automatically?

This is hiding the problem. The "too old" message is there for a
reason: the ports collection now depends on a feature which does not
exist on your system. If you do this then some aspect of the ports
system will break. Just follow the advice and do a make world (as
noted elsewhere, upgrade kits are not available yet).

Kris

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