Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:12:09 -0500 From: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> To: Jan Henrik Sylvester <me@janh.de> Cc: Svein Halvor Halvorsen <svein.h@lvor.halvorsen.cc>, questions-list freebsd <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Binary upgrade from legacy version + ports Message-ID: <D0583B6A-3781-43E3-9D24-4A250E268100@goldmark.org> In-Reply-To: <488D7AD0.5090804@janh.de> References: 488C37AD.50305@lvor.halvorsen.cc <488D7AD0.5090804@janh.de>
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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/
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