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On 10/17/10, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, b. f. wrote:
>  > On 10/15/10, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote:
...
> Just to check that I get it .. for packages-8-stable, an 8.0-RELEASE-p2
> kernel + world is used to _build_ these, is that right?

Yes, on i386, although this will change as some stable branches reach
their end-of-life.

>So they should
> then install fine on any later 8.x system too?

Yes, most of the time, although there may be uncommon cases in which
they will not work as expected.

b.