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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!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!EU.net!Ireland.EU.net!maths.tcd.ie!not-for-mail From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie (David Malone) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: newer ports/packages on older releases - was emacs & xemacs Date: 2 Feb 1997 00:28:10 -0000 Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. Lines: 18 Sender: mathnews@graves.maths.tcd.ie Message-ID: <5d0n2q$108@graves.maths.tcd.ie> References: <01bc0717$7a032540$0cc147cf@jbushakra> <32E4782E.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <5cg5l1$sbu@camel0.mindspring.com> <5cu0bp$6fc@uriah.heep.sax.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: graves.maths.tcd.ie Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:34901 j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) writes: >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. Curiously I discovered that GNU find needs to be compiled between 2.1.X and 2.2 because of the change in the statfs struct. The old find still works, but can't tell what filesystem is what. David.