From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 13 22:59:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA06977 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 22:59:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts8-line7.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.71]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA06969 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 22:59:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00780; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 22:59:57 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 22:59:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Sage Weil cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrading libraries In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960911203457.009c7fb0@osiris.hmc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 11 Sep 1996, Sage Weil wrote: > I'm currently running FreeBSD-2.1, and would like to use a number of the > newer packages in the 2.1.5 and current hierarchies. However, they require > things like libXaw 6.1 and libXext 6.1, where 2.1 is distributed with 6.0. > > 1) Is it possible ot just get these libraries without upgrading the OS to > 2.1.5? The upgrade section in the README for 2.1.5 didn't make a full > upgrade sound like it was very much fun.. It sounds worse than it really is. Let me know and I'll post my handy-dandy guide to upgrading FreeBSD. I did it on three machines without a single blip. > 2) Is there somewhere where other libararies from the new OS can be found, > and will they work as well? (e.g. libc 3.0, etc.) libc you can just copy 2.2 over. The rest is a bigger problem. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major