Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2009 17:50:03 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Peter Clark <clarkp@mtmary.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Make Question Message-ID: <44zlcephis.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <4A316C54.3040409@otenet.gr> (Manolis Kiagias's message of "Thu\, 11 Jun 2009 23\:43\:00 %2B0300") References: <4A3159B3.5090009@mtmary.edu> <4A316C54.3040409@otenet.gr>
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Manolis Kiagias <sonicy@otenet.gr> writes: >> I have inherited an old FreeBSD 5.1 machine(5.1-RELEASE-p18). I >> realize that the short answer to my question is more than likely to >> upgrade the OS to a current release and I would if I had that option >> right now, but I do not. I needed to upgrade the perl/openssh/openssl >> implementation on this box. My first thought was to use the port on >> the machine that was from that era but make fails. So then I thought >> to csup the ports tree and try with a new version, that fails as well. >> The error is as follows: >> > > 5.1 (in fact all 5.X) has reached EOL. The latest ports tree won't > compile stuff for 5.X. Use the following line in your ports-supfile to > get the last ports tree that was supported in 5.X: > > *default release=cvs tag=RELEASE_5_EOL > > instead of > > *default release=cvs tag=. > > Still, since this is going to be really old you may still have problems > (missing distfiles and so on). But is worth trying if you must stay with > 5.X for whatever reason. One thing it won't do is get you any of the bug fixes to the ssh port. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/
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