From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 27 20:35:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BA7916A420 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:35:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from don@lizardhill.com) Received: from bigbird.whtech.com (bigbird.whtech.com [64.125.72.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C6A9343D45 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:35:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from don@lizardhill.com) Received: (qmail 27232 invoked by uid 0); 27 Feb 2006 20:35:16 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mickey) (unknown) by unknown with SMTP; 27 Feb 2006 20:35:16 -0000 From: "Don O'Neil" To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?'Bj=F6rn_K=F6nig'?= Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 12:35:24 -0800 Message-ID: <004e01c63bdd$56724b60$0300020a@mickey> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <44035BDB.2030109@cs.tu-berlin.de> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 Thread-Index: AcY72VSaedOpBirhTd6s7SchBqhDOQAA8Vsg Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: 4.X Binaries on 5.X or 6.X? 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, 27 Feb 2006 20:35:23 -0000 I haven't tried running them yet, I'm just asking since I'm planning on building a new server and would prefer to use 5.x or 6.x rather than = 4.11 which my old server is running.=20 I guess the best way to find out is to try... I was just asking if there _could_ be any issues. If you were in my position, would you install 5.4 or 6.0? I noticed = there are quite a lot of changes in 6.0 and it requires at least 5.3 for = upgrade purposes... So my question is, is it really ready for 'prime time'?=20 -----Original Message----- From: Bj=F6rn K=F6nig [mailto:bkoenig@cs.tu-berlin.de]=20 Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 12:07 PM To: Don O'Neil Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.X Binaries on 5.X or 6.X? Don O'Neil schrieb: > Are there any reasons why I couldn't run any userland apps that were=20 > built on 4.X (some on 4.6, some one 4.11) on the 5.X or 6.X versions = of FreeBSD? Most likely there are reasons. What's the error message? Did you = installed misc/compat4x? Bj=F6rn