Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2024 05:46:29 -0400 From: LuMiWa <lumiwa@dismail.de> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD releases Message-ID: <20241011054629.7be5def2@dismail.de> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1tDsvDnhb5g=tWXdz_rSrTAzKwqP1LAqgL-3LWptkw_6w@mail.gmail.com> References: <20241009063710.09572e05@dismail.de> <CAN6yY1tDsvDnhb5g=tWXdz_rSrTAzKwqP1LAqgL-3LWptkw_6w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, 10 Oct 2024 23:09:41 -0700 Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 3:37=E2=80=AFAM LuMiWa <lumiwa@dismail.de> wrote: >=20 > > Hi! > > > > As a binary packages user I have one question, please. > > For example: > > releng/14.1 14.1-RELEASE June 4, 2024 > > expected eol March 31, 2025 > > > > This mean that are all packages built on version 14.0 for six > > months. This mean if we want applications built for 14.1 we need to > > use ports, special for apps like drm-kmod and more and build by > > ourselves. Am I wright? > > > > Thank you. > > > > -- > > =E2=80=9CI hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know > > nothing about.=E2=80=9D > > > > =E2=80=95 Jean-Jacques Rousseau > > > > Yes. As long as 14.0 was supported, ports are built on 14.0. Now > > that 14.0 > is EOL, as of October 1, ports are built on 14.1. There SHOULD be no > problem in running 14.0 packages on 14.1 as the user space ABI is > guaranteed to not change. The notable exception is ports that provide > kernel modules. While most work as FreeBSD tries to keep the ABI > consistent, it is not guaranteed. Notably, the drm-*kmod packages > need to be built from the port with the kernel sources matching the > kernel sources on the build machine. This has also happened with the > virtualbox kmod and probably others. >=20 > For multiple systems running hte same kernel, the port may be built > once, a package built and copied to other systems. >=20 >=20 Thank you very much. When I used ports I never had a problem but when I switched to packages problems start showing... --=20 =E2=80=9CI hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know noth= ing about.=E2=80=9D =E2=80=95 Jean-Jacques Rousseau=20
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