From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 7 12:38:20 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 661FF16A51B for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 12:38:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from unsane.co.uk (unsane.co.uk [62.140.220.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B664143D45 for ; Thu, 7 Sep 2006 12:38:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Received: from [192.168.10.217] (150.117-84-212.staticip.namesco.net [212.84.117.150]) (authenticated bits=0) by unsane.co.uk (8.13.7/8.13.3) with ESMTP id k87CcKuH018162 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 7 Sep 2006 13:38:20 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jhary@unsane.co.uk) Message-ID: <450012AF.9080100@unsane.co.uk> Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:38:07 +0100 From: Vince User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060811) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthias Apitz References: <8E33A9EC-0BC3-4F51-9481-A1388B24583B@mac.com> <19861fba0609070409p6123418ej4b00665c16b9dff4@mail.gmail.com> <20060907113418.GA5193@rebelion.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <20060907113418.GA5193@rebelion.Sisis.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: J65nko , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg install 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, 07 Sep 2006 12:38:20 -0000 Matthias Apitz wrote: > El día Thursday, September 07, 2006 a las 01:09:33PM +0200, J65nko escribió: > >> You can download the latest ports tree from >> http://www.freebsd.org/ports/installing.html > > Hello, > > One question concerning this: Can this be used regardless of the > underlaying FreeBSD system 6.0-REL versus 6.1-REL or are there > dependencies, for example newer sys calls or driver software in > the ports like iwi firmware, etc.? > It should be usable regardless of underlying version, as the port maintainer should put in version checks to stop it being built on systems that cant run it. (I say should as i'm sure some don't although I've yet to find one that doesn't.) Vince > Thx. > > matthias >