-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:34:19 +0500 rihad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|Hi, I need to install several packages from PEAR, among which are |MDB2, LiveUser. The problem is that the named packages are a bit |outdated: | |PEAR port: 1.5.0_1 upstream: 1.5.2 Patch is here :) http://people.freebsd.org/~miwi/patches/pear.diff (update to 1.5.3) feedback welcome :) actually i'm wait of feedback from maintainer ... |MDB2 port: 2.3.0 upstream: 2.4.0 Today committed |LiveUser port 0.15.1 upstream: 0.16.2 I'm work on a update. | |etc. etc. I could continue this list easily. Some of the packages |(i.e. LiveUser) haven't had a maintainer for quite some time (as |denoted by the orphaned [EMAIL PROTECTED] maintainer email). Since the |ports folks don't seem to be keeping up the pace, can I simply install |the PEAR's port (i.e. bootstrap) and then install all the necessary |PEAR packages from within the PEAR installer? What undesirable effects |could/will this have in practice? I understand one should use the |ports subsystem wherever possible, but this is just not the case where |this is possible ;-) | |Thank you. - - Martin - -- Martin Wilke | irc.unixfreunde.de #bsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD Committer | Power to Serve -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGMokvFwpycAVoI1MRAnQ2AJ9wJ4T0wMC+lF6nQ0LyhmbQRdN6WgCghLIV i8DgFqfp3bxE7DN/iwxtvTI= =usEm -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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