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Date:      Fri, 23 Nov 2007 07:17:45 -0600
From:      Mark Linimon <linimon@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>
Subject:   Re: Is it O.K. to use the 7.0 ports tree on 6.3 ?
Message-ID:  <200711230717.46555.linimon@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <E1Ivdgm-000Oq2-II@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
References:  <E1Ivdgm-000Oq2-II@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>

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On Friday 23 November 2007, Pete French wrote:
> 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 ?

The dependencies can vary depending on OS release, so it's not
guaranteed to work.  Use 'make fetchindex' after you install to
get the latest snapshot for 6-STABLE.

mcl



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