From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 10 10:05:17 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 414D8106566B for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:05:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from twhoffma@math.uio.no) Received: from mail-out1.uio.no (mail-out1.uio.no [129.240.10.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9A4D8FC0A for ; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:05:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from twhoffma@math.uio.no) Received: from mail-mx5.uio.no ([129.240.10.46]) by mail-out1.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KS7nW-0002hi-O1; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:05:14 +0200 Received: from smtp.uio.no ([129.240.10.9] helo=mail-mx5.uio.no) by mail-mx5.uio.no with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KS7nW-0003T6-Ia; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:05:14 +0200 Received: from w3prod-wm01.uio.no ([129.240.4.214] helo=webmail.uio.no) by mail-mx5.uio.no with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KS7nW-0003T2-Da; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:05:14 +0200 Received: from 80.202.85.78 (SquirrelMail authenticated user twhoffma) by webmail.uio.no with HTTP; Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:05:14 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <33216.80.202.85.78.1218362714.squirrel@webmail.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <489DE5B3.7070708@janh.de> References: 53237.84.48.122.117.1218294399.squirrel@webmail.uio.no <489DE5B3.7070708@janh.de> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:05:14 +0200 (CEST) From: "Torgeir Hoffmann" To: "Jan Henrik Sylvester" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.10a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-UiO-Resend: resent X-UiO-Spam-info: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=-5.0, required=5.0, autolearn=disabled, UIO_MAIL_IS_INTERNAL=-5, uiobl=NO, uiouri=NO) X-UiO-Scanned: A7A6FBA368B08056287EAF6042949AEBDB08ACFC X-UiO-SPAM-Test: remote_host: 129.240.10.9 spam_score: -49 maxlevel 200 minaction 2 bait 0 mail/h: 24 total 9436921 max/h 8345 blacklist 0 greylist 0 ratelimit 0 Cc: questions-list freebsd Subject: Re: 7-stable packages on 7.0-release system? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: twhoffma@student.matnat.uio.no List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:05:17 -0000 Hi again! > > I assume that it is not advisable, but what can I expect to happen if > > I try to use packages for 7-stable on a 7.0-release system? > > No, it is not advisable. I tried: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-June/177553.html Thanks for pointing this out! > Not having newer binary packages for the latest RELEASE is a shortcoming > on FreeBSD, but you will find many references that there are simply not > enough resources. Please excuse me for branching this thread off into another loosely related question. But then, if I am to use this laptop of mine for work (nothing critical): How stable is 7-stable? Can I upgrade to 7-stable via freebsd-update? Best Regards, //Torgeir