From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 07:44:21 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 281DA16A4CE for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 07:44:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.194.102.111]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E802C43D31 for ; Wed, 11 May 2005 07:44:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6189F514DB; Wed, 11 May 2005 00:44:20 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 00:44:20 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Nekdo Nekje Message-ID: <20050511074420.GB97896@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <515659fd050511000010098a6f@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="v9Ux+11Zm5mwPlX6" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <515659fd050511000010098a6f@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using 5-STABLE packages with 5.4 RELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 07:44:21 -0000 --v9Ux+11Zm5mwPlX6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:00:04AM +0200, Nekdo Nekje wrote: > Hey all.. >=20 > I have a sort of question regarding FreeBSD and its port system. > Please do bear with me, since I'm a newbie in the whole *nix world, > especially with BSD like systems. >=20 > My question is... Is it possible to use the latest Samba package with > the 5.4-RELEASE? Is it absolutely necessary to upgrade the RELEASE > distibution to -STABLE for that to work? Is using a package from the > STABLE ports tree with the RELEASE system an insane thing to do? >=20 > A quote from the FreeBSD HandBook: "pkg_add(1) will download the > latest version of your application if you are using FreeBSD-CURRENT or > FreeBSD-STABLE. If you run a -RELEASE version, it will grab the > version of the package that was built with your release. It is > possible to change this behavior by overriding the PACKAGESITE > environment variable" >=20 > So, my guess is it can be done or am I wrong? >=20 > I wanna use release version for my production servers, but in the > same time I would like to use the latest available Samba package for > FreeBSD. Is this doable?? It's mostly expected to work, although some packages are tied to a particular kernel version and may not work on systems other than that for which they were built. samba should be fine though. Kris --v9Ux+11Zm5mwPlX6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCgbfUWry0BWjoQKURAurZAJ0WBp2H3wWwDHuFUyN01hZb4PlUNACg+XxA t9OS/8FzQSBGOQS9jq9wqtg= =RpBX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --v9Ux+11Zm5mwPlX6--