From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 30 18:27:15 2005 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 3B88716A42C for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:27:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from willmaier@ml1.net) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36CBE43D72 for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:27:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from willmaier@ml1.net) Received: from frontend1.internal (mysql-sessions.internal [10.202.2.149]) by frontend1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB478CCBE2E for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:27:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.151]) by frontend1.internal (MEProxy); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:27:08 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: gjuyeL8NItalsG3s15b1frOZUJUTOWla4lDDdYRujYVk 1125426427 Received: from merkur (host-66-202-74-42.choiceone.net [66.202.74.42]) by frontend2.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE36757034F for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 14:27:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: by merkur (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1000 willmaier@ml1.net; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:27:11 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 13:27:07 -0500 From: Will Maier To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20050830182707.GE29088@localhost.localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20050828155958.GC24820@localhost.localdomain> <443borh8ai.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <20050830135342.GF25168@localhost.localdomain> <448xyjl28d.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <448xyjl28d.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040907i Subject: Re: Perl 5.8.7 port requires libm.so.4 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: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 18:27:15 -0000 On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 02:16:18PM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Will Maier writes: > > Hmm. I base my statement off the output from `uname -a`: > > FreeBSD `hostname` 5.4-SECURITY FreeBSD 5.4-SECURITY #0: Wed Jul > > 20 08:57:11 \ UTC 2005 > > root@builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > Sorry; I was confused. You were trying to run 6.x packages on a > 5.x system, not the other way around. Indulge a newb, then: how did that come about? I'm still figuring out port and packages and how they relate to the different releases. Do you mean that my portsnap'd ports tree is ~= 6.X and my system is ~=5.X? Is that inevitable? Is that a Bad Thing? Thanks so much for your help! -- o--------------------------{ Will Maier }--------------------------o | jabber:..wcmaier@jabber.ccc.de | email:..........wcmaier@ml1.net | | \.........wcmaier@cae.wisc.edu | \..........wcmaier@cae.wisc.edu | *------------------[ BSD Unix: Live Free or Die ]------------------*