Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 12:56:04 -0500 From: Chris Johnson <cjohnson@palomine.net> To: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jcwells@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: bsd.port.pre.mk Message-ID: <19981117125604.A12320@palomine.net> In-Reply-To: <H000057c01a1a774@MHS>; from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr on Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 06:10:27PM %2B0100 References: <19981117115039.A11934@palomine.net> <H000057c01a1a774@MHS>
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On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 06:10:27PM +0100, Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 17, 1998 at 12:00:30AM -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: > > > What is bsd.port.pre.mk and bsd.port.post.mk? > > > > > > My 3.0-RELEASE doesn't have these but one of my ports (kerberos V) > > > requires them. > > > > I had the same problem on a 2.2.7 system. I got the files from the > package > > > > Does this mean one is **forced** to update one's source tree (/usr/src) > before updating and using the ports ? > (a bit surprising for a Stable- machine, where one could expect not to be > re-making the world and rebooting too often) No--the 227upgrade.tgz package lets you use the -stable ports without updating /usr/src and making world and whatnot. It's a small package, consisting only of several bsd.port.* files. Calling it it an upgrade from 2.2.7 to 2.2-stable is misleading; there's no upgrade, except for the bsd.port.* files. Chris > > TfH > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/packages-stable/Latest/227upgrade.tgz. > I > > don't know if it would be appropriate to use these on a 3.0 system > though. > > They're pretty new--I didn't need them last week, but after cvsupping > my ports > > tree the other day I found some ports that needed them. > > > > Chris > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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