When was the last ports tree that worked with RELENG_6?

Lena at lena.kiev.ua Lena at lena.kiev.ua
Sat Feb 16 19:22:23 UTC 2013


Darren Pilgrim wrote:

> I have an old 6.4-R machine which I can take as far as RELENG_6, but no
> further due to a hardware-support issue (special hardware, third party
> driver).  The hardware needs to live a while yet, so I'd like to try to get
> the installed ports as up to date as possible.  The current ports tree
> doesn't work on 6.x

Chris Rees wrote:

> I think you may have some luck installing an up to date make(1) and
> dialog(1) (or set NO_DIALOG=yes in make.conf) from stable/9 or
> similar; many of the problems on 6 are caused by missing variable
> modifiers.

I have a jail without sources under 6.3-STABLE. I copied all the content
of the /usr/src/usr.src/make/ directory from another machine with 8.3-RELEASE,
in that directory gave `make` command, then copied the "make" executable to
/usr/bin/ . I use current port tree and succesfully update
openssl, stunnel, pcre, exim.


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