From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 2 16:18:26 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14CB716A420 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 16:18:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from yertle.kcilink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [65.205.34.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7675243D55 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 16:18:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from [192.168.7.103] (host-103.int.kcilink.com [192.168.7.103]) by yertle.kcilink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62329B864 for ; Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:17:25 -0500 (EST) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <6E3F0C8A-99C7-42F2-9A71-DBD6051DEEFF@khera.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Vivek Khera Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:17:24 -0500 To: freebsd-stable X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) Subject: Re: New ports on older stable (4.11) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 16:18:26 -0000 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.