From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 1 12:25:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D55A416A420 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 12:25:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24CE243D45 for ; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 12:25:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E84AE62C8E5; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 08:25:14 -0400 (AST) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 67347-10; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 08:25:14 -0400 (AST) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-222-82-85.eastlink.ca [24.222.82.85]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8532862C8A2; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 08:25:14 -0400 (AST) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8F5BE35132; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 08:24:59 -0400 (AST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B3EA3464E; Wed, 1 Mar 2006 08:24:59 -0400 (AST) Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 08:24:59 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Pete French In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20060301082408.A1005@ganymede.hub.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New ports on older stable (4.11) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:25:15 -0000 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