Wine-fbsd64 updated to 1.5.20 (32bit Wine for 64bit FreeBSD)

[Jens Jahnke]

On Wed, 26 Dec 2012 07:54:58 +0000
Matthew Seaman <matthew at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

MS> On 26/12/2012 07:27, Jens Jahnke wrote:
MS> > On Mon, 24 Dec 2012 12:27:11 +0200
MS> > David Naylor <naylor.b.david at gmail.com> wrote:
MS> > 
MS> > DN> Since it is possible to install the existing pkg 
MS> > DN> packages in a pkgng environment (which I do) this is not a
MS> > DN> high priority.
MS> > 
MS> > is there a documentation for that? I searched the pkgng docs but
MS> > found nothing regarding installation of "old" packages or
MS> > converting them to a newer version.
MS> 
MS> There's nothing in pkg_tools to stop it working on a pkgng-enabled
MS> system.  This does not mean that installing pkg_tools packages in
MS> that situation is in any way supported or encouraged.  If you do
MS> this, you will create a mess on your systems and store up a nasty
MS> job of sorting it all out for yourself.  It really isn't a good
MS> idea.

Thanks for the advise. I guessed in that direction. So I'll be patient
and wait for packages because I've never been able to build wine
(64bit) myself from source. I just need it for some old games anyway. ;)

Regards,

Jens

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