Re: portmanager port upgrade question

On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 05:56:03 -0400 Gerard Seibert wrote:
Boris Samorodov wrote:

Can anyon tell me why this port is marked ignore? Has it been superseeded?

You may consider reading /usr/ports/UPDATING.

BTW, it's the right file to read from time to time and especially if
you have questions about the port system. ;-)

The info you are searching for is in the file under the: 20060616 date
tag.

Yes.

Personally, why a new source was not created so that anyone downloading

Which type of source are you speaking of?

FreeBSD, and conversely not familiar with its workings, would not have
to go through this rigmarole is beyond me. If they wanted to keep a
clearly obsolete version around for what ever reason it should have been
so marked as such.

If you meen linux_base-8 than it is marked as DEPRECATED and an
EXPIRATION_DATE is set.

For someone doing a fresh install, there is no reason
to go this route, IMHO.

The default port now is linux_base-fc4 and if someone tries to install
any linux application from a portstree then the right linux port is
installed. And yes, the portstree should be up ta date (note the
system the OP asked was a fresh install as of two weeks ago).


WBR
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Boris Samorodov (bsam)
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