From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 28 15:31:24 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 E6E7B1065675 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:31:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F808FC27 for ; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:31:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA7AA145963; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:12:10 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:12:10 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: 6qqAj/zK5hWDJ7YfyGqzm2X4aIPSVvm0LDEqxRjINAvo 1217257930 Received: from hagrid.ewd.goldmark.org (n114.ewd.goldmark.org [72.64.118.114]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 1403313A1B; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:12:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: From: Jeffrey Goldberg To: Jan Henrik Sylvester In-Reply-To: <488D7AD0.5090804@janh.de> 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: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:12:09 -0500 References: 488C37AD.50305@lvor.halvorsen.cc <488D7AD0.5090804@janh.de> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.928.1) Cc: Svein Halvor Halvorsen , questions-list freebsd Subject: Re: Binary upgrade from legacy version + ports 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: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:31:25 -0000 On Jul 28, 2008, at 2:52 AM, Jan Henrik Sylvester wrote: > Svein wrote: > > Is there a problem using the prebuilt packages from STABLE on a > > RELEASE box? If I want to run RELEASE, and still use the latest > > packages? The ABI is consistent between STABLE and RELEASE, right? > > Yes, there is a problem. See my posting here: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-June/177553.html > > Unfortunatelly, I have not got an answer, but it is obvious packages > using this new symbol must fail: I recently discovered this through a blunder of my own. I accidently "updated" a 7-STABLE machine to 7-RELEASE, and discovered, among some other problems, that sudo failed with the same error you report. (I've now put a link to USE-THIS-SUPFiLE to stable-supfile in /usr/ local/etc/cvsup to avoid the blunder in the future.) -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/