From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 13 10:19:14 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E657106566C; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:19:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 172-17-198-245.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8AD414E545; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:19:13 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4F100521.7040005@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:19:13 -0800 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Volodymyr Kostyrko References: <4F100209.2010900@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4F100209.2010900@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: undefined OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-Current , FreeBSD Stable , George Kontostanos Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 10:19:14 -0000 On 01/13/2012 02:06, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > Why can't it be that only shared libraries should be bumped, but no > kernel incompatible changes were introduced? Because one of the reasons we have major branches is so that we can change the various API/KPI/etc. in the newer branch. Doug -- You can observe a lot just by watching. -- Yogi Berra Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/