Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 09:00:04 +0200 From: Nekdo Nekje <umeglic@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: using 5-STABLE packages with 5.4 RELEASE Message-ID: <515659fd050511000010098a6f@mail.gmail.com>
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Hey all.. I have a sort of question regarding FreeBSD and its port system. Please do bear with me, since I'm a newbie in the whole *nix world, especially with BSD like systems. My question is... Is it possible to use the latest Samba package with the 5.4-RELEASE? Is it absolutely necessary to upgrade the RELEASE distibution to -STABLE for that to work? Is using a package from the STABLE ports tree with the RELEASE system an insane thing to do? A quote from the FreeBSD HandBook: "pkg_add(1) will download the latest version of your application if you are using FreeBSD-CURRENT or FreeBSD-STABLE. If you run a -RELEASE version, it will grab the version of the package that was built with your release. It is possible to change this behavior by overriding the PACKAGESITE environment variable" So, my guess is it can be done or am I wrong? I wanna use release version for my production servers, but in the same time I would like to use the latest available Samba package for FreeBSD. Is this doable?? Thanks for your time... Best regards, Uros
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