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From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 18:55:44 +0000
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Subject: Is it O.K. to use the 7.0 ports tree on 6.3 ?
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I have a set of machines running 7.0 and a set running 6.3 which I
would like to use the same ports on. I was under the impression that
there was only one ports tree, so is it safe to simply untar the
ports.tgz file from 7.0 on the 6.3 machines, rename INDEX-7 to INDEX-6
and install away, or are there more subtle differences to tran the unwary ?

cheers,

-pcf.