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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.apana.org.au!cantor.edge.net.au!news.teragen.com.au!news.access.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newspump.sol.net!newsfeeds.sol.net!nntp.uio.no!news.apfel.de!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: newer ports/packages on older releases - was emacs & xemacs Date: 31 Jan 1997 23:48:09 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <5cu0bp$6fc@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <01bc0717$7a032540$0cc147cf@jbushakra> <32E4782E.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <5cg5l1$sbu@camel0.mindspring.com> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34894 jani@batman.mindspring.com (Jan Isley) wrote: > Which brings me to my other question. Is there any gotcha's to worry > about when installing -current packags or 2.2-packages or whatever on > "older" releases? perl5.003 for instance. Or using newer ports? ``That depends.'' There are some ports that are fairly system-dependant, like top or the like. I think perl5 is rather safe, OTOH. It's also possible that you need to get more recent shared libs. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)