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Subject: Re: Problems with linux_base-6.1
In-Reply-To: <3880386E.A83AB6BA@scc.nl> from Marcel Moolenaar at "Jan 15, 2000
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To: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 07:31:05 -0500 (EST)
Cc: Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami <asami@FreeBSD.ORG>,
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Marcel Moolenaar once stated:

=Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami wrote:
=> 
=> In that case,  I can't put them  in the upgrade kits,  can you modify
=> the port to check ${OSVERSION} and  exit with a message if the user's
=> system is too old?
=
=Is  that  necessary? The  ports  collection  isn't designed  for  older
=systems. Most  of the ports will  work anyway, but some  of them don't.

AFAIU, since  we have a single  ports collection, a port  is supposed to
work on every  version (not sure about  2.2.x) or, if it can  not -- say
so. In  this case, IMHO, there  should be two ports  -- linux_base (with
the 5.x) and linux_base6 -- for  the latest stuff. That's the user's twi
pennies.

	-mi

=People running  into problems  now should be  running -stable,  not 3.4
=release or older, right?


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