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From: "Gene" <fbsd@brightstar.bomgardner.net>
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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

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