Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2003 09:02:24 +0200 From: "Erik H. Bakke" <ebakke@trolltech.com> To: "Jesse D. Guardiani" <jesse@wingnet.net>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RC1 packages Message-ID: <200307030902.24990.ebakke@trolltech.com> In-Reply-To: <bbnjso$tsn$1@main.gmane.org> References: <bbnjso$tsn$1@main.gmane.org>
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On Thursday 05 June 2003 16:27, Jesse D. Guardiani wrote: > Quick question: > > If I go ahead and install 5.1-RC1 now from ISO CDROM, > will I have access to packages that are newer than the > ones that come with FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE? Or will they > be the same packages as 5.0-RELEASE? Or will I not have > access to packages at all? (That was always the case > when I would CVSUP and buildworld on our servers) > You will have access to the newest ports tree through cvsup regardless of what version of FreeBSD you are running. (As long as cvsup can run on it, that is ;) Just make sure you check out the head of the ports tree (The "." tag), otherwise you will not get any ports. > I ask because I need at LEAST XFree86 4.2.x for my laptop > display to work properly with my ATI Radeon Mobility LY > on my IBM Thinkpad A30p. And the last time I checked, I > think 5.0-RELEASE only offered XFree86 4.1.x. And I'm not > fond of compiling my x server by hand. Once you have cvsupped to the latest ports you can just rebuild any packages you need to upgrade through the ports system :) Cheers -- Erik H. Bakke
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