Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 04:34:25 +0300 From: Vladimir <haba@aaanet.ru> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re[2]: why are theynot updated WAS Re: samba 3.0, FreeBSD 5.1 Message-ID: <572804781.20031108043425@aaanet.ru> In-Reply-To: <20031101210634.GA45077@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20031005080039.GA23414@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <000c01c3a0b7$8eef69a0$0100000a@Biggie> <20031101210634.GA45077@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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Hello, Kris. >> Also why is such an old version of perl 5.003 still in the freebsd base when >> 5.8 is out ? KK> Because 5.8 is not backwards-compatible with 5.00503, and updating the KK> base system version would break a lot of scripts used on installed KK> FreeBSD machines. You can trivially install perl 5.8 from the ports KK> collection if you want to use it. And what about 5.6? -- Regards, Vladimir mailto:haba@aaanet.ru
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