Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 21:48:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Mike Meyer <mwm@phone.net> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Patches breaking? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910172139490.20461-100000@guru.phone.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910171827521.61237-100000@hub.freebsd.org>
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On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Kris Kennaway wrote: ;->On Sun, 17 Oct 1999, Mike Meyer wrote: ;->> I haven't. I'm running the ports package (and the rest of the system) ;->> as installed off of the 3.2-RELEASE CDROMS. ;->Did you unpack over the top of an existing /usr/ports? Sounds like you've ;->got stale patches lying around which were removed in the 3.2-R ports ;->snapshot. Try blowing away the patches directory and reextracting it from ;->the CD. Bingo. Thank you. That's why I reported it here, instead of filing a PR - I figured I'd done something wrong. Everything seems to be building and installing fine at this point. ;->Be aware that by not tracking the ports collection you miss things like ;->security fixes which get applied to various ports. You shouldn't have any ;->trouble running 3.2-R with an updated ports collection, especially if you ;->apply the upgrade kit (see www.freebsd.org/ports). Yes, I'm well aware of that. I tried tracking ports alone, until I was told that I needed to track -STABLE as well. That was a bit further from -RELEASE than we are now, though. Tracking -STABLE and my paranoia about backups don't work well together. I sleep better knowing I can recreate the entire system from backups, and tracking -STABLE causes fulls to be needed far to often. So I started tracking the things that I need to stay current with from the source, and use ports for things that can be updated at the same intervals as the system. I also follow the freebsd security and CERT lists, and will do an upgrade for security reasons should I need that. Thanx, <mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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