Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:17:24 -0500 From: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> To: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New ports on older stable (4.11) Message-ID: <6E3F0C8A-99C7-42F2-9A71-DBD6051DEEFF@khera.org> In-Reply-To: <E1FEP8r-0008Qr-IY@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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On Mar 1, 2006, at 6:05 AM, Pete French wrote: > I dont know how backward compatible ports are ggenerally, but I > have a 4.11 machine that I really want to upgrade the ports on. > But I dont know if they will alla ctually compile, and I dont wnat to > start doing the process only to find that I cant build one of them > possibly. Does anybody know if this is likely to work, or is it > simply unsupported ? i have several 4.11 machines in service with ports mostly up-to- date. what you can do is cd to the port and run "make". If it builds chances are it will work, then you can do the necessary port upgrades.home | help
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