From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 26 3:20:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E605037B78F for ; Wed, 26 Apr 2000 03:19:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rsidd@theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 4038 invoked from network); 26 Apr 2000 08:32:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in) (144.16.71.128) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 26 Apr 2000 08:32:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 1128 invoked by uid 211); 26 Apr 2000 08:32:49 -0000 Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 14:02:49 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Kent Stewart Cc: Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ports: any difference between 3.x/4.0? Message-ID: <20000426140248.A1104@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Mail-Followup-To: Kent Stewart , Gunnar H Reichert-Weygold , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <00042518315401.00333@gunnar.my.domain> <20000426074930.B570@physics.iisc.ernet.in> <39067736.C453940F@3-cities.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <39067736.C453940F@3-cities.com>; from kstewart@3-cities.com on Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 09:57:26PM -0700 X-Operating-System: Linux 2.0.32 i486 X-Question: Do you enjoy reading pointless headers? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the answer. Glad that the problems I saw weren't the only ones which exist and I can look forward to more :-) Yes, ports are a lifesaver. I don't think anything else I've seen comes close, certainly not RPM's. > The changes that they made to the Makefiles in the ports left a number > broken for a short time. Your port setup could be out of step with the > ports themselves. The "cvs commits" to fix the new Makefile structure > have pretty much died off recently. My ports tree is updated quite regularly, so I don't think that's the problem. I was just wondering whether there were two ports trees, one for 3.4 and one for 4.0, like there are several source trees. It seems that is not the case. In that case I'm surprised by how well things actually work: in linux, for instance, lots of things tend to get broken after a major upgrade. Rahul. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message