freebsd-question@premsoft.co.za
2004-Jun-05 11:46 UTC
4.9-STABLE --> 4.8-RELEASE downgrade. Pitfalls?
Hi all. I want to downgrade a 4.9-STABLE box to a 4.8-RELEASE box to sort out this MySQL problem that I have. Are there any known pitfalls that I should be aware of before I do this downgrade? I think rcNG was imported on some stage? Will this have any effect on the 4.8 branch? I just want to make sure that this is a (semi) smooth process as I do not have physical access to that machine over weekends and I *really* do not want to go to work early Monday morning. ;) Input will be greatly appreciated. ;) Thank you. ---jaco
in message <40C214F0.2010207@premsoft.co.za>, wrote freebsd-question@premsoft.co.za thusly...> > I want to downgrade a 4.9-STABLE box to a 4.8-RELEASE box to sort > out this MySQL problem that I have. Are there any known pitfalls > that I should be aware of before I do this downgrade?Port making will fail if you keep ports trees updated at least due to use of new make(1) syntax introduced, in 4.9, in a port's Makefile. The problem i noticed was related to use of parenthesis in ".if ... .endif" structure. - Parv --
wrote Chuck Swiger thusly...> > Parv wrote: > [ ... ] > >Port making will fail if you keep ports trees updated at least due > >to use of new make(1) syntax introduced, in 4.9, in a port's > >Makefile. The problem i noticed was related to use of parenthesis > >in ".if ... .endif" structure. > > Thanks for the response, Parv, but ugh! I cringe at the notion that > continually tweaking make and the port Makefiles causes problems > with backwards compatibility to a still-supported FreeBSD release.That looks like the message that i sent to one of the FreeBSD lists. After searching PR database, it seems somebody else found the exact reason... http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/60288 I think life w/ NetBSD would not be so bad via its FreeBSD ports equivalent "pkgsrc". One other known benefit, via pkgviews, is that multiple versions of a particular an be simultaneously installed/used at the cost of use of many symbolic links. Here are some things on pkgsrc ... http://www.NetBSD.org/~jlam/pkgsrcCon/presentations.html http://www.NetBSD.org/Documentation/pkgsrc/ http://www.NetBSD.org/Documentation/software/packages.html http://www.NetBSD.org/Documentation/software/pkgviews.pdf The last time i read papers/slides listed on "pkgsrcCon", ugly symbolic links would have been the only problem for me after the problem of potentially missing ported software that i currently use on FreeBSD. (No, i have not checked the pkgsrc list). Mind you that i have no experience of NetBSD or pkgsrc, so both may have their own problems currently unknown to me. - Parv --
in message <20040609011934.GA393@moo.holy.cow>, wrote Parv thusly...> > One other known benefit, via pkgviews, is that multiple versions > of a particular an be simultaneously installed/used ...That should read instead... One other known benefit, via pkgviews, is that multiple versions of a particular port can be simultaneously installed/used ... - Parv --