Xorg install

Vince jhary at unsane.co.uk
Thu Sep 7 05:38:20 PDT 2006


Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Thursday, September 07, 2006 a las 01:09:33PM +0200, J65nko escribió:
> 
>> You can download the latest ports tree from
>> http://www.freebsd.org/ports/installing.html
> 
> Hello,
> 
> One question concerning this: Can this be used regardless of the
> underlaying FreeBSD system 6.0-REL versus 6.1-REL or are there
> dependencies, for example newer sys calls or driver software in
> the ports like iwi firmware, etc.?
> 
It should be usable regardless of underlying version, as the port
maintainer should put in version checks to stop it being built on
systems that cant run it. (I say should as i'm sure some don't although
I've yet to find one that doesn't.)

Vince
> Thx.
> 
> 	matthias
> 



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