Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 15:32:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrey Lakhno <land@dnepr.net> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recent ports on 2.2.8-R Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009021530110.84896-100000@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20000903005902.A16229@daemon.dnepr.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Andrey Lakhno wrote:
> Hi !
>
> What i need to do to install programs from ports collection on my
> FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE box ?
>
> Ports collection are fresh. Just cvsupped.
> Is there any caveats ?
Yes, the ports collection no longer supports 2.x. Any ports which build
and work on that system will be purely coincidental :-)
Either upgrade your system, or if this system is so criticial you can't
upgrade it then consider either not installing ports on it, or building
them yourself.
You could use an older ports collection, but I don't recommend it for
security reasons - old versions of software such as are found in the old
ports collection contain many more security holes than newer versions, on
average
Kris
--
In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate.
-- Charles Forsythe <forsythe@alum.mit.edu>
To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSF.4.21.0009021530110.84896-100000>