From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 31 03:54:44 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38E8116A4E0 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:54:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4EC043D82 for ; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:54:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 379861A4D8E; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:54:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 2DB77533CC; Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:54:17 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 23:54:16 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" Message-ID: <20060831035416.GA95969@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20060828161718.P67591@scorpio.seibercom.net> <20060828205915.8181.qmail@web53409.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jI8keyz6grp/JLjh" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060828205915.8181.qmail@web53409.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: Gerard Seibert , FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: Various package/ports problems X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 03:54:44 -0000 --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Aug 28, 2006 at 01:59:14PM -0700, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: > I wish i could, but i dont have physical access to the machine - its > in a remote location with no serial console. So if anything gets=20 > messed up during an upgrade, im in a hell of a lot of trouble. >=20 > I dont know when i'll be able to fix this problem so until i can upgrade > the OS i at least want to keep the rest of it up to date. The packages are compiled for 4.11-stable and do not work with systems much older than this (e.g. 4.8, as you discovered). You might have more luck compiling from the ports collection, although that too only supports 4.11 officially (and modern releases, of course). Kris --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE9l1nWry0BWjoQKURAutxAKDLEiISRPda5NG0M5aLZLdixnPi+wCdGWmj mPK/2lDowANw7ZS/qD4xHQY= =1yLQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh--