Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 22:59:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Sage Weil <sage@mind.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading libraries Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960913225902.615Z-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960911203457.009c7fb0@osiris.hmc.edu>
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On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Sage Weil wrote: > I'm currently running FreeBSD-2.1, and would like to use a number of the > newer packages in the 2.1.5 and current hierarchies. However, they require > things like libXaw 6.1 and libXext 6.1, where 2.1 is distributed with 6.0. > > 1) Is it possible ot just get these libraries without upgrading the OS to > 2.1.5? The upgrade section in the README for 2.1.5 didn't make a full > upgrade sound like it was very much fun.. It sounds worse than it really is. Let me know and I'll post my handy-dandy guide to upgrading FreeBSD. I did it on three machines without a single blip. > 2) Is there somewhere where other libararies from the new OS can be found, > and will they work as well? (e.g. libc 3.0, etc.) libc you can just copy 2.2 over. The rest is a bigger problem. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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