Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:45:11 -0600 From: "Gene" <fbsd@brightstar.bomgardner.net> To: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>,Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Portsnap vs CSup Message-ID: <20090319234359.M64636@brightstar.bomgardner.net> In-Reply-To: <20090319184847.J29356@tripel.monochrome.org> References: <8250ac3f0903191139m7c895ff9gde584ad16e3923f0@mail.gmail.com> <49C29970.3070503@gmail.com> <B03C7532-C4E5-43F0-A877-7A88C5D5483C@charter.net> <20090319184847.J29356@tripel.monochrome.org>
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On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:50:48 -0400 (EDT), Chris Hill wrote > On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Charles Howse wrote: > > > On Mar 19, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Adam Vandemore wrote: > > > > I just noticed the description in the man page for freebsd-update: > > > > ..."Note that updates are only available if they are being built for > > the FreeBSD release and architecture being used; in particular, the > > FreeBSD Security Team only builds updates for releases shipped in > > binary form by the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team, e.g., FreeBSD > > 6.1-RELEASE and FreeBSD 6.2-RC1, but not FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE or FreeBSD > > 7.0-CURRENT." > > Is this saying that I can't get a binary upgrade for 6.4-STABLE? > > That is exactly what it's saying. > > > (You would not believe how long the make world process takes on a Pentium > > 200!!) > > I believe it; been there! I seem to recall it went something like > 'start the buildworld and go to bed'. > > -- > Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org > ** [ Busy Expunging <|> ] > _______________________________________________ Rhink that's bad? I've been trying to build KDE4 on a toshiba satellite laptop for over a week now. IHN, Gene -- To everything there is a season, And a time to every purpose under heaven.
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