Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 09:06:44 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: twhoffma@student.matnat.uio.no Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7-stable packages on 7.0-release system? Message-ID: <E563581D-5111-4DC8-9823-0A556DC9DBE5@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <53237.84.48.122.117.1218294399.squirrel@webmail.uio.no> References: <53237.84.48.122.117.1218294399.squirrel@webmail.uio.no>
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On Aug 9, 2008, at 8:06 AM, Torgeir Hoffmann wrote: > 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". FreeBSD tries to avoid making incompatible changes to userland API once a major version is released, and exceptions to that are generally documented in /usr/src/UPDATING & /usr/ports/UPDATING. You shouldn't have any problems running 7-stable packages on a 7.0-R system, at least for the present. Eventually, packages will end up being built with newly added functionality, and will fail to run if it isn't there, but it will be a while before you are likely to experience a problem. If you have concerns about following 7-STABLE, you might consider following the security branch (aka RELENG_7_0) instead, or even using the binary update mechanism Colin Percival wrote... Regards, -- -Chuck
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