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Subject: Re: ports from portsnap wont work ...
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"Ronald Klop" <ronald-lists@klop.ws> wrote:

> Something like this would have been user friendly than.
>
> if OSVERSION < 840000
>    echo "Unsupported FreeBSD version for ports tree."
>    exit 1
> fi

Indeed! I only know about it because I got tripped up by
this too, and it took much back scratching to finally figure
out that there wasn't a knackered port config or something
I'd broken!

Cheers, Jamie