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Subject: Re: Can't build ports on older FreeBSD machine
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On Monday 18 April 2005 08:38 pm, Brett Glass wrote:
> At 09:19 PM 4/18/2005, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >Fortunately, make is not built from a port.  You need to update your
> >version of FreeBSD to use ports on that box.
>
> In other words, if one innocently updates one's ports one day, one
> may suddenly find oneself to do anything with ports at all? This
> seems to violate POLA.
>
> --Brett Glass

Just how old is your version of BSD?  There is another option for you BTW:
add something like this to your ports-supfile

*default date=2003.01.01.00.00.00

but do adjust the year to something close to the year of your version of 
FreeBSD, then run cvsup.  Now if you still have all the ancient distfiles
you should be able to fix your ports. Here is a link to a site that seems to 
keep distfiles around forever in case you need to hunt down a few:

http://sf.gds.tuwien.ac.at/

-Mike