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Subject: Re: Sanity check: FreeBSD 9.3 binaries on FreeBSD 9.1?
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Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> said:

> It's possible they may work, but that is not guaranteed.
>=20
> Packages built on 9.1 should work on 9.3.
>=20
> Packages built on 9.3 may work on 9.1, but that would only be by =
chance.

OK, it sounds like testing is in order to make sure, but the probability =
is greater than zero.  It also sounds like I may be at least partially =
sane.

Thanks!


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Alan Amesbury
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