From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 9 15:04:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FC4116A4E0 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 15:04:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stb@lassitu.de) Received: from koef.zs64.net (koef.zs64.net [213.238.47.30]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E202143D76 for ; Wed, 9 Aug 2006 15:04:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stb@lassitu.de) Received: (from stb@koef.zs64.net) (authenticated) by koef.zs64.net (8.13.7/8.13.7) with ESMTP id k79F43AX077662 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 9 Aug 2006 17:04:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from stb@lassitu.de) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <82747676-85B0-4D43-9F4C-E4FFEC9D771C@lassitu.de> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Stefan Bethke Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2006 17:03:59 +0200 To: "V.I.Victor" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pkg_add question X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2006 15:04:23 -0000 Am 09.08.2006 um 15:43 schrieb V.I.Victor: > Generally -- is it OK to do a 'pkg_add' from > 'packages-6-stable' to a 5.4 system? No. You might get away with putting a 6-stable package on a 6.1 system, but only if you're lucky. Packages compiled for newer releases will never* work on older releases. You need to build from ports. Stefan * There's trivial software that might work, but there is absolutly no guaranty. -- Stefan Bethke Fon +49 170 346 0140