From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Nov 26 21:36:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA11934 for freebsd-ports-outgoing; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 21:36:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA11929 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 21:36:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (IDENT:WHAT_THE_HELL_YOU_LOOKING_AT_@d60-147.leach.ucdavis.edu [169.237.60.147]) by relay.nuxi.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id VAA02787; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 21:36:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id FAA01466; Fri, 27 Nov 1998 05:36:18 GMT (envelope-from obrien) Message-ID: <19981126213613.A1453@nuxi.com> Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 21:36:13 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Kevin Day Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports on 2.2.5 Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <199811270454.WAA24164@home.dragondata.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <199811270454.WAA24164@home.dragondata.com>; from Kevin Day on Thu, Nov 26, 1998 at 10:54:36PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I got about 30 responses saying "Upgrade to 2.2.7, stupid!"... Isn't ports > designed to still work no matter what version you have? (within reason?) Ports are designed to work (ie, built and tested) with -CURRENT and -STABLE, peroid. However, they will mostly work with other versions (within reason) provided you keep /usr/share/mk/*port* up todate. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message