On 12-Jul-99 Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 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.
PR/12595
PR/12599
> Kris
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