Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 08:24:59 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> To: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New ports on older stable (4.11) Message-ID: <20060301082408.A1005@ganymede.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <E1FEP8r-0008Qr-IY@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> References: <E1FEP8r-0008Qr-IY@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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99.9% of ports seems to work ... I've hit a few that are marked as BROKEN, like postgis stuff, but nothing that I'd considered "mainstream" ... On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Pete French wrote: > I dont know how backward compatible ports are ggenerally, but I > have a 4.11 machine that I really want to upgrade the ports on. > But I dont know if they will alla ctually compile, and I dont wnat to > start doing the process only to find that I cant build one of them > possibly. Does anybody know if this is likely to work, or is it > simply unsupported ? > > I;d love to upgrade the machine to 6.1 - but I have no physical access to > it, nor am I likely to get any for the forseeable future, and upgrading > across the 4/5 boundary isn't something I would be happy doing remotiley > in multi-user mode (if it's even possible!) > > -pcf. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664
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