From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 14 23:17:18 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA28609 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 23:17:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA28602 for ; Sat, 14 Jun 1997 23:17:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id JAA01001; Sun, 15 Jun 1997 09:17:45 +0300 (IDT) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma000990; Sun Jun 15 09:17:15 1997 Message-ID: <33A3888F.79AA@barcode.co.il> Date: Sun, 15 Jun 1997 09:15:43 +0300 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: edward.ing@utoronto.ca CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Current Ports and Ports 2.1.7 ports. References: <33A32AE4.E8A@utoronto.ca> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk edward.ing@utoronto.ca wrote: > > 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? It depends. Some will work, some will need some tweaking and some will simply not work. > > 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? Last time I checked the ftp site had a 2.1-ports tree. In case I'm mistaken, you can always (I think) use CVSup to fetch from the CVS tree the ports collection at any point in time, including that of any release you may require (never tried this, so I might be wrong here ). Nadav