Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 12:25:32 +0000 From: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> To: dougb@FreeBSD.org Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it O.K. to use the 7.0 ports tree on 6.3 ? Message-ID: <E1Ivu4i-0008Ur-DW@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> In-Reply-To: <4747A110.9090805@FreeBSD.org>
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> You've already received the right advice about not renaming the INDEX, > but I think it's also worth mentioning that untar'ing a static picture > of the ports tree is of little practical value unless you never plan > to update the base, and you never plan to update any ports on that > machine. Sorrty, but I do not understand this at all. Surely untarring the ports file is exactly what the installer does when you install BSD onto a machine? Why is doing it by hand any different ? > You're much better off starting with downloading the tree with csup, > that way you can maintain it more easily down the road. Won't running csup on the tree I just untarred work ? I use csup (and have used cvsup in the past) to update ports trees on machines I installed from CD, and it works fine. Unless the installer is doing something other than simply untarring that file I can't see why it isn't just going to work in the same way. In this case the point is moot as I am not going to update the ports tree on these machines at all - this is a temporary measure until I wipe them and upgrade them to 7.0 when it is released. Have upgraded one to 7.0 already to tryit out (works really nicely) but I just wanted the rest of the machines in the fram to be running the same versions in the interim few weeks until I upgrade them all. Thanks for the advice though, if it really doesnt work then thats definitely worth knowing! Might to some experiments to verity that though - sorry for being scepticle, but I am sure I have done this in the past and it worked fine. cheers, -pete.
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