On Wed, May 11, 2005 at 09:00:04AM +0200, Nekdo Nekje wrote: > Hey all.. > > I have a sort of question regarding FreeBSD and its port system. > Please do bear with me, since I'm a newbie in the whole *nix world, > especially with BSD like systems. > > My question is... Is it possible to use the latest Samba package with > the 5.4-RELEASE? Is it absolutely necessary to upgrade the RELEASE > distibution to -STABLE for that to work? Is using a package from the > STABLE ports tree with the RELEASE system an insane thing to do? > > A quote from the FreeBSD HandBook: "pkg_add(1) will download the > latest version of your application if you are using FreeBSD-CURRENT or > FreeBSD-STABLE. If you run a -RELEASE version, it will grab the > version of the package that was built with your release. It is > possible to change this behavior by overriding the PACKAGESITE > environment variable" > > So, my guess is it can be done or am I wrong? > > I wanna use release version for my production servers, but in the > same time I would like to use the latest available Samba package for > FreeBSD. Is this doable??
It's mostly expected to work, although some packages are tied to a particular kernel version and may not work on systems other than that for which they were built. samba should be fine though. Kris
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