Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:54:42 +0100 From: "Andreas Rudisch" <cyb.@gmx.net> To: guru@sisis.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0-REL && isos of distfiles Message-ID: <op.s2jyhg0bblu3bc@p4-3200> In-Reply-To: <20051229150959.GA10620@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <20051229141409.GA7881@rebelion.Sisis.de> <20051229145814.GA19261@flame.pc> <20051229150959.GA10620@rebelion.Sisis.de>
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On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:10:00 +0100, <guru@Sisis.de> wrote: > El día Thursday, December 29, 2005 a las 04:58:14PM +0200, Giorgos > Keramidas escribió: > >> The distfiles are the sources of the ported programs. > > I know. > >> They are >> not specific to a single release. You can just copy over the >> distfiles from the older notebook and rebuild your ports. > > That's not true. I copied over the /usr/ports/distfiles from my > 5.4-REL to the 6.0-REL but the ports-collection which comes with > 6.0-REL will use other sources while doing 'make install' in > /usr/ports/x11/kde: Well, since 6.0 came out much after 5.4, it uses updated ports/ packages (new features, bugfixes), so the versions of some ports of 6.0 will be higher than of 5.4. What is the point in installing a new release of FreeBSD and using 'old' ports. Just install FreeBSD 6.0 and use the packages provided with the RELEASE, or cvsup your ports tree and do a fresh install of the ports you need. Andreas
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