On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Matthias Apitz <g...@unixarea.de> wrote: > El día Monday, April 01, 2013 a las 08:54:59PM -0700, Kevin Oberman escribió: > >> > Is there something in the base system of r235646 which would not allow >> > to do so, i.e. which is to old for HEAD of ports? >> > >> >> I'm not quite sure what you mean by "update /usr/ports with SVN to HEAD", >> since ports does not branch, so any time you "svn up /usr/potrts", it is >> updated to head. > > I used the term 'HEAD' because the SVN command I have used was: > > # svn co https://svn0.us-west.FreeBSD.org/ports/head /usr/ports > >> Any version of FreeBSD 8 or newer should work fine with >> ports/head. Note that some ports will need to be compiled with gcc as not >> all will work with clang. > > thanks; > >> >> Are you having a problem updating (or checking out) head or with some of >> the ports after the update? > > the system in question hast around 1200 ports compiled based on the CVS > checkout of ports on May 19 last year; I want to check if I could > compile Ekiga out of its GIT, wich needs gtk+3.4.x and other recent > stuff; I will just for a test rename /usr/local and /var/db/pkg, update > the ports to 'HEAD' and compile them again to see if this would solve > the problem and make Ekiga happy. >
I hope for your sake that this machine is not open to the net with many services, using year old ports/packages is a death wish in such systems. In any case it's a good idea to update everything at least every two months about. -Kimmo _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
