From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Tue Feb 2 22:09:29 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39866A99C13 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2016 22:09:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amesbury@oitsec.umn.edu) Received: from mail.oitsec.umn.edu (mail.oitsec.umn.edu [128.101.238.120]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail.oitsec.umn.edu", Issuer "InCommon RSA Server CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 13B63939 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2016 22:09:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amesbury@oitsec.umn.edu) Received: from mail.oitsec.umn.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.oitsec.umn.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB27E5C80C for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2016 16:09:19 -0600 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at oitsec.umn.edu Received: from mail.oitsec.umn.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by mail.oitsec.umn.edu (mail.oitsec.umn.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 7knDhq7JaJNk for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2016 16:09:19 -0600 (CST) Received: from optimator.oitsec.umn.edu (optimator.oitsec.umn.edu [134.84.23.1]) (Authenticated sender: amesbury) by mail.oitsec.umn.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7BDE45C80A for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2016 16:09:19 -0600 (CST) From: Alan Amesbury Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Sanity check: FreeBSD 9.3 binaries on FreeBSD 9.1? Message-Id: Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 16:09:19 -0600 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.1 \(3096.5\)) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3096.5) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2016 22:09:29 -0000 First off.... Yes, I know 9.1-RELEASE is deprecated. I want to run = something newer, but circumstances require I can't for now. Traditionally in FreeBSD -STABLE (as in 9-STABLE) referred to the APIs = as being stable, i.e., stuff compiled within the same major release = would generally run on versions within that release... or so I recall. = I have an instance where I have a need to run 9.1-RELEASE, but my = package building infrastructure is all centered around 9.3-RELEASE or = later. Based on my (possibly incorrect) understanding of How Things = Are[tm], I think packages built for 9.3-RELEASE will generally run on = 9.1-RELEASE. Does this sound generally correct, or am I totally off = base here? Any major pitfalls I should know of? --=20 Alan Amesbury University Information Security http://umn.edu/lookup/amesbury