From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Feb 18 14:40: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F41211960 for ; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 14:40:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id PAA21746; Thu, 18 Feb 1999 15:39:41 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19990218144122.04033bd0@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 14:42:30 -0700 To: gcross@netspace.net.au From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Port upgrade check/report tool Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199902182111.IAA13073@whirlwind.netspace.net.au> References: <4.1.19990218125208.04019eb0@mail.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 08:07 AM 2/19/99 +1100, gcross@netspace.net.au wrote: >Brett, is this a problem with my script (eg. it is failing to find an >INDEX file) or are you making a more general statement about the moving >nature of available ports & packages for FreeBSD? It's a general problem. After one version comes out, the ports for older ones aren't available via FTP anymore. They should probably do something via symlinks unless there's a reason why the ports won't work on an older version. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message