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Date:      Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:26:19 +0100
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
Cc:        User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: binary compatibility 6.2 -> 6.3
Message-ID:  <4747457B.30706@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071123141158.72c17557@gumby.homeunix.com.>
References:  <882887.83136.qm@web88309.mail.re4.yahoo.com> <20071123141158.72c17557@gumby.homeunix.com.>

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RW wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 06:21:17 -0500 (EST)
> Michael S <msherman77@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> Good day all,
>>
>> I am running 6.2 with patches, however my package_site
>> points to 6-stable. Upgrading binary packages gives
>> this message: Undefined symbol "__sbmaskrune".
>>
>> >From the few results Google returned, I realized that
>> the packages in 6-stable are for the upcoming 6.3. I
>> thought that major branches were compatible. Am I
>> wrong?
> 
> Yes, the compatibility works the other way around, packages built
> under 6.2 are supposed to work under  6.3/6-stable. 

That much is pretty much guaranteed, but we also support the other way 
around, in many cases.

In the present case, the problem was noticed the other day (by me ;) and 
fixed, so the next package upload will correct the problem.

Kris



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