Date: Tue, 26 Sep 1995 00:47:50 -0700 From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: scott@statsci.com Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: which releases are /pub/FreeBSD/packages/* good for? Message-ID: <199509260747.AAA17449@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <m0swHIh-000r3tC@main.statsci.com> (message from Scott Blachowicz on Fri, 22 Sep 1995 16:14:32 -0700)
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* Is the packaging scheme smart enough to tell if I have a suitable OS revision * for being able to use a particular package? For instance, if I go grab * ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/packages/All/zsh-2.6b10.tgz and am able to * successfully pkg_add it, should I expect that it will work properly? I'm * running 2.0.5-RELEASE from CD. Or should I just go grab sources & build for * myself? Or should I just be patient and wait for the 2.1 CD? @ No, that's why we build packages in a batch in put them in package-<rel> directories. @ It depends, it should complain about the libc minor version number but zsh will probably work. @ Yes, that's probably the best idea at this point. With the ports mechanism, building the software yourself is almost as easy as adding it from a package. @ That's a good idea too. :) Satoshi
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