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Date:      Wed, 9 May 2001 16:53:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Joseph Mallett <jmallett@newgold.net>
To:        dannyman <dannyman@toldme.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-chat@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: question/rant: upgrade kit for 3.x ports?!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSO.4.33.0105091653300.8626-100000@Aphex.NewGold.NET>
In-Reply-To: <20010509135202.B17000@dell.dannyland.org>

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Make a package from the port, and install it on the boxes that can't
build. What's the problem with doing it that way?

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On Wed, 9 May 2001, dannyman wrote:

> Does someone have the "upgrade your 3.x system so it can still use ports
> package" available SOMEWHERE?
>
> Okay, so I can understand that 3.x "isn't supported"
>
> But no upgrade kit for the ports tree?  When there USED to be?
>
> No old package repositories?
>
> What does a person do when they want to reinstall postfix on their 3.5-RELEASE
> machine?  "make world"?!  AUGHGHG!!!
>
> I have a box that had a screwed up Postfix installation, so I deleted the
> package, and went to ports to rebuild it, and it tells me I need an upgrade
> kit, which I remember USED TO BE available, so HALF of my 3.x boxes can still
> use ports, the other half can't.  And now if I want to reinstall Postfix on
> this machine I get to fetch and build the tarballs myself.
>
> Well, except that HALF of my 3.x machines can still use ports and build a
> package for it.
>
> That sucks.
>
> Grrr.
>
> Thanks,
> -danny
>
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