From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Sep 2 15:32:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA1F137B422; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 15:32:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA86194; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 15:32:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 15:32:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Andrey Lakhno Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recent ports on 2.2.8-R In-Reply-To: <20000903005902.A16229@daemon.dnepr.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message