Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 20:05:47 -0400 From: "John Daniels" <jmd526@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADSUP: gzip packages on FreeBSD 4-STABLE Message-ID: <F113HOzyfyz5b6KZmcK0000003f@hotmail.com>
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Bruce Mah wrote: >As a side effect, this will once again allow older FreeBSD >installations to read recently-generated packages, although the >use of such packages is not officially supported. Can you please clarify this? Does this mean that once FreeBSD has completed the move to bzip2 then installations running older FreeBSD versions that support/use gzip will have to upgrade to the latest FreeBSD version in order to download/use newly generated packages? In essence, 1) there is no backward compatibility, right? so 2) will it be possible to 'upgrade' an older FreeBSD version to bzip2 without upgrading the system as a whole? Lastly, an unrelated question: is there a "roadmap" for what changes are planned in upcomming versions? If so, where can I find it? John (c) Copyright 2002 John Daniels. All rights reserved. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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