Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2013 19:46:48 +0000 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: Lena@lena.kiev.ua Cc: Darren Pilgrim <list_freebsd@bluerosetech.com>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: When was the last ports tree that worked with RELENG_6? Message-ID: <CADLo83-FVGuykL=uodqFDjwQL6om3GZr2hM1p-bV%2BUutfNexww@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130216192206.GB914@lena.kiev> References: <20130216192206.GB914@lena.kiev>
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On 16 Feb 2013 19:22, <Lena@lena.kiev.ua> wrote: > > Darren Pilgrim wrote: > > > I have an old 6.4-R machine which I can take as far as RELENG_6, but no > > further due to a hardware-support issue (special hardware, third party > > driver). The hardware needs to live a while yet, so I'd like to try to get > > the installed ports as up to date as possible. The current ports tree > > doesn't work on 6.x > > Chris Rees wrote: > > > I think you may have some luck installing an up to date make(1) and > > dialog(1) (or set NO_DIALOG=yes in make.conf) from stable/9 or > > similar; many of the problems on 6 are caused by missing variable > > modifiers. > > I have a jail without sources under 6.3-STABLE. I copied all the content > of the /usr/src/usr.src/make/ directory from another machine with 8.3-RELEASE, > in that directory gave `make` command, then copied the "make" executable to > /usr/bin/ . I use current port tree and succesfully update > openssl, stunnel, pcre, exim. You can also just use make install to get it in there :) Chris
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