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Subject: Current Ports and Ports 2.1.7 ports.
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If I were to download the tarballs and the skeleton of Current-Ports
or 2.2 ports, would I be able to make the port on a 2.1.7 system?

If Current-Ports are not backwards compileable, is there a facility
to add ports to 2.1.7 distribution tree so that those who do not
want not want to upgrage to more recent versions have an archive to
download and upload ports for this earlier stable, landmark, version of
freebsd?