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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