From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 9 15:06:42 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB54B1065696 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 2008 15:06:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from twhoffma@math.uio.no) Received: from mail-out2.uio.no (mail-out2.uio.no [129.240.10.58]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ABAE8FC20 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 2008 15:06:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from twhoffma@math.uio.no) Received: from mail-mx6.uio.no ([129.240.10.47]) by mail-out2.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KRq1g-0001Tr-6X for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:06:40 +0200 Received: from smtp.uio.no ([129.240.10.9] helo=mail-mx6.uio.no) by mail-mx6.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KRq1g-0001wT-16 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:06:40 +0200 Received: from w3prod-wm01.uio.no ([129.240.4.214] helo=webmail.uio.no) by mail-mx6.uio.no with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KRq1f-0001wK-Sp for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:06:39 +0200 Received: from 84.48.122.117 (SquirrelMail authenticated user twhoffma) by webmail.uio.no with HTTP; Sat, 9 Aug 2008 17:06:39 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <53237.84.48.122.117.1218294399.squirrel@webmail.uio.no> Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 17:06:39 +0200 (CEST) From: "Torgeir Hoffmann" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.10a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-UiO-Resend: resent X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-5.0, required=5.0, autolearn=disabled, UIO_MAIL_IS_INTERNAL=-5, uiobl=NO, uiouri=NO) X-UiO-Scanned: 9B3A1C071F5376892784156F54AA3E4772F3446F X-UiO-SPAM-Test: remote_host: 129.240.10.9 spam_score: -49 maxlevel 200 minaction 2 bait 0 mail/h: 25 total 9434639 max/h 8345 blacklist 0 greylist 0 ratelimit 0 Subject: 7-stable packages on 7.0-release system? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: twhoffma@student.matnat.uio.no List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:06:42 -0000 Hi all, I assume that it is not advisable, but what can I expect to happen if I try to use packages for 7-stable on a 7.0-release system? The reason is simple: I have a low-end laptop, so I want to avoid building as much as possible. However, the packages from release are rarely, if ever, updated and therefore very quickly becomes out of date, or they don't exist (e.g. openoffice). I often run into trouble when I need something that depends upon something that often affects many ports is updated, say gettext. Are packages for 7-stable mostly binary compatible with 7.0-release? Or should I just upgrade to 7-stable? Can 7-stable be trusted to run smoothly in most cases? I saw in one thread on the freebsd-stable list that 7-stable was more like current, only a bit "cleaner". What do other 7-release users do in cases such as these? Best Regards, Torgeir