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Date:      Tue, 15 May 2001 11:59:35 +0200
From:      Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org>
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: How to tell ports to work on FreeBSD 3.x
Message-ID:  <20010515115935.A15677@rapier.smartspace.co.za>
In-Reply-To: <3B00D8D4.CBF6050F@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Tue, May 15, 2001 at 12:20:52AM -0700
References:  <20010509140838.C17000@dell.dannyland.org> <200105100026.RAA04754@usr06.primenet.com> <20010509180154.E17000@dell.dannyland.org> <p05100308b7203779c364@[194.78.241.123]> <20010510143702.A84503@rapier.smartspace.co.za> <20010513140646.B63072@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010513182210.G58926@dell.dannyland.org> <3B00D8D4.CBF6050F@mindspring.com>

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On Tue 2001-05-15 (00:20), Terry Lambert wrote:
> The big problem is that the /usr/share/mk files and the
> /usr/ports/Mk files often need to match each other fairly
> closely, since the ports targets frequently use targets
> in included bsd.*.mk files to do their dirty work.

I don't believe that's the case anymore.

Again, I have almost perfectly functional 3.3-RELEASE machines using
ports, simply by changing /var/db/port.mkversion.  I don't get origin
support in the pkg tools, but that's the only difference I see.
Theoretically the mtree files may be an issue, but again, I haven't
noticed.

Neil
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Neil Blakey-Milner
nbm@mithrandr.moria.org

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