Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:42:44 -0400 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: tomdean@speakeasy.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portupgrade Package Question Message-ID: <CAGFTUwNGposRfnR4OA=mSFrEJsm=79kOosNKP_Z5aOf_QD5FiA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGFTUwOjgwTx4s%2B3=Z6zV-VH4H%2BSDskKrh_CbvKCYW2rVpe%2B4w@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGFTUwM8RhA6zL_GJ==pwTaZFsrg-_5aPfJXEugwcRhW9=ZKxg@mail.gmail.com> <1310269783.14697.12.camel@asus> <CAGFTUwOjgwTx4s%2B3=Z6zV-VH4H%2BSDskKrh_CbvKCYW2rVpe%2B4w@mail.gmail.com>
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On 7/10/11, b. f. <bf1783@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 7/9/11, Thomas D. Dean <tomdean@speakeasy.org> wrote: >> On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 19:54 -0400, b. f. wrote: > You could cheat, and neither upgrade your base system nor make the > changes I mentioned in my last message, but instead fool portupgrade > into thinking that you have a newer base system, by setting UNAME_R to Sorry, that should be "UNAME_r", with a lower-case "r", above. But, as I wrote, using that workaround is probably not a good idea. > something like "8.2-STABLE" in your environment when you call > portupgrade, but you are bound to run into problems eventually by > lying in that way.
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