ruby18 fails as dependecy of sysutils/portupgrade with make: don't know how to make INSTALLS_DEPENDS

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 10:34 PM +0300 7/28/04, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
>On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 20:49:35 +0200
>Uwe Laverenz <uwe at laverenz.de> wrote:
>
>>  On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 11:39:48PM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
>>
>  > > This happens on a 5.2.1-RELEASE with ports up-to-date, with
>  > > only perl, postfix and cvsup-without-gui installed.
>  >
>  > I guess this happens because you use -RELEASE and not RELENG_5_2.
>  > If you update the base system to 5.2.1-p9 you get some fixes that
>  > will satisfy the ruby port (probably the OpenSSL bug, see below *).
>
>I see. My plan was to update to -CURRENT and see how this little
>Pentium 120MHz behaves, but since current's waters seems to be
>very troubled right now I postponed that.

Your plan is a very reasonable one.  Note that RELENG_5_2 is an
actual CVS tag, and it is *NOT* the same as 5.2-current.  It is
5.2-RELEASE plus a very few security fixes.

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