Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 15:24:05 -0500 From: Mike Jakubik <mikej@rogers.com> To: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing release version on source Message-ID: <440F3D65.2070000@rogers.com> In-Reply-To: <790a9fff0603081217x190cbcbao94b56dd3943d77da@mail.gmail.com> References: <440F393C.9030302@rogers.com> <790a9fff0603081217x190cbcbao94b56dd3943d77da@mail.gmail.com>
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Scot Hetzel wrote: > 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. > Yes it does, but it's not easy to change them. They also check their own CRC validity, and it wold be too much of a pain to do it. Also, some binaries do checks too.
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