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Date:      Mon, 7 Mar 2005 17:01:32 +0000
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        David Fleck <david.fleck@mchsi.com>
Cc:        Joe Kelsey <joe@zircon.seattle.wa.us>
Subject:   Re: error in ksh93 port - distfile out of sync?
Message-ID:  <20050307170132.GJ22873@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050305203735.Q98716@grond.sourballs.org>
References:  <20050305162201.Q98716@grond.sourballs.org> <1110062700.679.116.camel@zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us> <20050305203735.Q98716@grond.sourballs.org>

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On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 08:40:29PM -0600, David Fleck wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Mar 2005, Joe Kelsey wrote:
> >Your ports tree is insanely out-of-date.
> >
> >cvsup your ports tree and try again.
> 
> 
> OK. That's interesting, though - this is on a machine that I installed via 
> FTP today (2005-03-05).  Apparently one of the FTP servers listed on the 
> install floppy (ftp3.freebsd.org, I think it was) is very out-of-date.

If you install a FreeBSD release, you get the ports collection that
was tested and shipped with that release, not the latest version which
may or may not work with old releases.

See http://www.freebsd.org/ports for more. 

Kris



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