problem with new /usr/ports/archivers/rpm checkin

[Kris Kennaway]

On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 02:28:40PM -0700, Aaron Levin wrote:
> On Fri, 11 Jul 2003, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 02:19:02PM -0700, Aaron Levin wrote:
> >
> > > here is a uname -a for this machine is:
> > >
> > > FreeBSD skip.bepress.com 4.6-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE #0: Tue Jul 30
> > > 11:50:32 PDT 2002     alevin at skip.bepress.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SKIP
> > > i386
> > >
> > > before this latest update i successfully built this package on a 4.6.2
> > > machine without a hitch!?
> >
> > That could be related.  The ports collection only supports the latest
> > release.
> >
> > Kris
> 
> understood.  so you think that the difference between 4.6.2 and 4.6 would
> account for this?

It's more likely to be related to a recent bsd.port.mk commit that
works on new releases but not on old.

> i am confused as i thought that the ports were able to negotiate different
> versions of FreeBSD.

No, about 5 years ago some people used to produce "upgrade packages"
that allowed old releases to use the current ports collection by
replacing necessary parts of the base system, but these were
discontinued due to lack of volunteers from the community to develop
and test the upgrade packages.

> do you suggest that users not cvsup their ports collection if they
> don't have the most current release?

Yes.

Kris
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