From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 11 15:02:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46E9B37B401 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:02:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from raider.bepress.com (raider.bepress.com [64.62.134.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7C4843F85 for ; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:02:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alevin@bepress.com) Received: from raider.bepress.com (localhost.bepress.com [127.0.0.1]) by raider.bepress.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h6BM2nJv069551; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:02:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alevin@bepress.com) Received: from localhost (alevin@localhost)h6BM2nDO069548; Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:02:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alevin@bepress.com) X-Authentication-Warning: raider.bepress.com: alevin owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 15:02:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Aaron Levin To: Kris Kennaway In-Reply-To: <20030711215502.GA55456@rot13.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: <20030711145857.X68125-100000@raider.bepress.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: problem with new /usr/ports/archivers/rpm checkin X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 22:02:52 -0000 > It's more likely to be related to a recent bsd.port.mk commit that > works on new releases but not on old. yes i just tried rebuilding the port from the system that had built it fine and i get the same result (marked as broken). > No, about 5 years ago some people used to produce "upgrade packages" > that allowed old releases to use the current ports collection by > replacing necessary parts of the base system, but these were > discontinued due to lack of volunteers from the community to develop > and test the upgrade packages. > > > do you suggest that users not cvsup their ports collection if they > > don't have the most current release? > > Yes. great thanks for this. i don't want to waste your time further, but i am running a 4.6.2 system with linux_base6 and i need to go to the latest linux_base (linux 7). i already have this built and tested on a test machine. looking at the install, it appears that i can simply tar up my good /usr/compat/linux directory from the test machine and replace the existing /usr/compat/linux directory on my production machine and everything will to work. i have tested doing this on a different machine, but i would like your opinion. do you suggest i don't do this? all systems are 4.6.2. thanks again for all your help! i really appreciate it and am always impressed by the FreeBSD's support team. -Aaron Levin