From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 27 19:57:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA15180 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 19:57:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lemieux.hockey.net (lemieux.hockey.net [209.98.94.246]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA15168 for ; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 19:57:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from orpheus@lemieux.hockey.net) Received: (from orpheus@localhost) by lemieux.hockey.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA27469; Tue, 27 Oct 1998 21:56:25 -0600 Message-ID: <19981027215624.D27407@lemieux.hockey.net> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 21:56:24 -0600 From: Jeffrey Dunitz To: Anand Buddhdev Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using older packages References: <19981026091050.A4685@iconnect.co.ke> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1 In-Reply-To: <19981026091050.A4685@iconnect.co.ke>; from Anand Buddhdev on Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 09:10:50AM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Oct 26, 1998 at 09:10:50AM +0300, Anand Buddhdev said something like: > I've just acquired a FreeBSD-2.2.7 release set from Walnut Creek. This set > seems to contain far fewer packages than the 2.2.5 release. Is it OK to use > packages from 2.2.5 on the 2.2.7 installation that I have? i haven't tried that with 2.2.7, but I used some 2.2.2 packages on my 2.2.5 system when that's what I was using. It worked OK. There are compatibility libraries that you can install, but I'm not sure you need them unless you're running 2.1.x binaries on a 2.2.x system. Not exactly sure how that works... At any rate, yes, there's a way to do it without much trouble. > > -- > Anand > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Jeffrey Dunitz | Current Job: | orpheus@avalon.net BOFH Emeritus, Avalon Networks | Network Engineer | Eagan, MN, USA http://www.avalon.net/~orpheus | EXi Corporation | 651-523-6992 (work) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message