On Friday 16 March 2007 06:26 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Gerard Seibert wrote:
> > On Friday March 16, 2007 at 07:02:33 (AM) sergio wrote:
> >>   I tried to install new clamav on my freebsd-4.8. ./configure with
> >>   enable-experimental was good. but make ends with error code 1.
> >>   Clamav-0.90.1 is not installable on freebsd-4.8,yes?
> >>   Help please.
> >
> > Versions of FreeBSD <= 5.5 are not supported by FBSD. Would it be
> > conceivable for you to update your system to version 6.2, the current
> > version, and then attempt to install clamav again? I think you are
> > only going to have problems running modern software on an outdated OS
> > version.
>
> It probably isn't necessary to goto the latest version of FreeBSD.
> What you will probably need to do is go to the latest version
> in the 4.x train.  Somewhere along the 4.x train they changed
> the package utilities so a lot of the ports don't work with it
> now.  I had this problem with other ports and an update to 4.11
> fixed it for me.  Jumping minor versions is a lot less tramatic
> then jumping major versions.

If you're going to stick with FreeBSD 4.x, then you will need to edit your 
ports supfile to use tag=RELEASE_4_EOL.  That's the last-known-working 
ports tree for FreeBSD 4.x.  After that tag was put on the ports tree, 
they removed all support for FreeBSD 4.x from the ports framework.

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