Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 01:18:25 -0400 (EDT) From: John Gillis <zefram@zefram.net> To: Subhro <subhro.kar@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compiling 4-RELEASE on 5-STABLE Message-ID: <20041014011057.P22475@dante.zefram.net> In-Reply-To: <b2807d0404101321223f96161e@mail.gmail.com> References: <20041014000024.T27161@dante.zefram.net> <b2807d0404101321223f96161e@mail.gmail.com>
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> If everything is not working right, then 5.3 wouldnever be tagged > STABLE. This is not Windows. Granted, however I need to make sure that everything works fine in my environment on my hardware with my software. The reason I use FreeBSD is that I trust your release engineering moreso than any other vender (as it were)*, however.. there are still things that could go wrong and I prefer not to find out when a production server heads south or doesn't have the right firmware on the RAID card.. so that's why I lag. Also, at least one piece of hardware is near impossible to upgrade. An old 486/25 that's running Snort, without a cd-rom and a 200M hard drive. > 4.10-R uses gcc 2.95 and 5.3 uses gcc 3.4. The binaries compiled with > the later are not backward compatble. What about my question about boot strapping? Does that ensure that I could compile the world/kernel of 4.x on 5.3? John * Are you a vendor? You don't vend... I should say that I trust you more than any other operating system.. but that's too wordy.
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