From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 9 16:06:51 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 BAFAB106564A for ; Sat, 9 Aug 2008 16:06:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D7F08FC19 for ; Sat, 9 Aug 2008 16:06:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D06B75CFF; Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:06:50 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new+ClamAV at codefab.com Received: from [10.152.145.251] (72-165-115-225.dia.static.qwest.net [72.165.115.225]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F10965C54; Sat, 9 Aug 2008 12:06:46 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: From: Chuck Swiger To: twhoffma@student.matnat.uio.no In-Reply-To: <53237.84.48.122.117.1218294399.squirrel@webmail.uio.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v928.1) Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 09:06:44 -0700 References: <53237.84.48.122.117.1218294399.squirrel@webmail.uio.no> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.928.1) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7-stable packages on 7.0-release system? 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: Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:06:51 -0000 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