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Date:      Fri, 13 Apr 2001 10:56:31 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        Mikhail Kruk <meshko@cs.brandeis.edu>, <security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: SSHD
Message-ID:  <15063.12223.488385.402605@nomad.yogotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <200104131647.MAA60805@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
References:  <3AD72A8A.50B71BF@gmx.net> <Pine.LNX.4.30.0104131239180.13954-100000@calliope.cs.brandeis.edu> <200104131647.MAA60805@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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> > I can't give you a good advice on how to fix 4.1
> > You may want to try upgrading the whole ports tree, but that won't
> > probably work.
> 
> The ports system works, with some exceptions, on systems as old as
> 3.4.

And as far back and 2.2.8-stable.

  It is necessary to make a few minor changes in Mk/bsd.port.mk in
> order for this to work, but beyond that most stand-alone program ports
> work just fine, so long as the code actually supports old systems.

You may have to modify some ports Makefiles, but just remove the
offending lines, and things progress nicely.

It's not quite a 'hands-off' as in 4.x/5.x, but it works pretty well.


Nate

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