Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 00:44:20 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Nekdo Nekje <umeglic@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using 5-STABLE packages with 5.4 RELEASE Message-ID: <20050511074420.GB97896@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <515659fd050511000010098a6f@mail.gmail.com> References: <515659fd050511000010098a6f@mail.gmail.com>
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--v9Ux+11Zm5mwPlX6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:00:04AM +0200, Nekdo Nekje wrote: > Hey all.. >=20 > I have a sort of question regarding FreeBSD and its port system. > Please do bear with me, since I'm a newbie in the whole *nix world, > especially with BSD like systems. >=20 > My question is... Is it possible to use the latest Samba package with > the 5.4-RELEASE? Is it absolutely necessary to upgrade the RELEASE > distibution to -STABLE for that to work? Is using a package from the > STABLE ports tree with the RELEASE system an insane thing to do? >=20 > A quote from the FreeBSD HandBook: "pkg_add(1) will download the > latest version of your application if you are using FreeBSD-CURRENT or > FreeBSD-STABLE. If you run a -RELEASE version, it will grab the > version of the package that was built with your release. It is > possible to change this behavior by overriding the PACKAGESITE > environment variable" >=20 > So, my guess is it can be done or am I wrong? >=20 > I wanna use release version for my production servers, but in the > same time I would like to use the latest available Samba package for > FreeBSD. Is this doable?? It's mostly expected to work, although some packages are tied to a particular kernel version and may not work on systems other than that for which they were built. samba should be fine though. Kris --v9Ux+11Zm5mwPlX6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCgbfUWry0BWjoQKURAurZAJ0WBp2H3wWwDHuFUyN01hZb4PlUNACg+XxA t9OS/8FzQSBGOQS9jq9wqtg= =RpBX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --v9Ux+11Zm5mwPlX6--
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