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Date:      Fri, 11 Jul 2003 14:28:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Aaron Levin <alevin@bepress.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: problem with new /usr/ports/archivers/rpm checkin
Message-ID:  <20030711142710.G66280-100000@raider.bepress.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030711212424.GA55245@rot13.obsecurity.org>

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On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 02:19:02PM -0700, Aaron Levin wrote:
>
> > here is a uname -a for this machine is:
> >
> > FreeBSD skip.bepress.com 4.6-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE #0: Tue Jul 30
> > 11:50:32 PDT 2002     alevin@skip.bepress.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SKIP
> > i386
> >
> > before this latest update i successfully built this package on a 4.6.2
> > machine without a hitch!?
>
> That could be related.  The ports collection only supports the latest
> release.
>
> Kris

understood.  so you think that the difference between 4.6.2 and 4.6 would
account for this?

i am confused as i thought that the ports were able to negotiate different
versions of FreeBSD.

do you suggest that users not cvsup their ports collection if they don't have the most current release?

-Aaron Levin




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