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Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 14:17:13 -0600
From: "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com>
To: "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@rogers.com>
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Subject: Re: Changing release version on source
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On 3/8/06, Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know how to change the release version of the source code? I
> have some brain dead software (Plesk) that insists on FreeBSD 5.3, while
> it will work just fine on 5.5 and even 6. I am wondering i can change
> the version of RELENG_5 code so that this software will think its 5.3-R
> and let me install. I have tried changing the variable in
> /usr/src/release/Makefile, but that seems to have no effect.
>
To change it, you would have to edit sys/*/param.h.

Does the installer for this program use shell scripts?  If it does,
you could edit the shell scripts to reconize newer version of FreeBSD.

Scot
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