On Sun, 11 Jul 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > Q: I want to use this cool piece of software that's in the FreeBSD
> > ports system. But I can't build it on my 3.x-stable system.
> >
> > Why not?
>
> A. Likely because someone running only on a -current box last committed
> a change to the port which broke it with 3.x. Please submit a bug
> report on this with send-pr since the -current ports collection is supposed
> to work with both the -current and -stable branches. If you're running a
> release version that lags significantly behind -current or -stable, you
> will require a ports upgrade kit from http://www.freebsd.org/ports
Does someone plan to add this question and the other one about the dangers
of -current to the FAQ? I think they are both well-answered.
Kris
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