Re: Packages question - version 5.1 on 5.0.2 system?

[Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Donald Lee
<MacPPC2%caution.icompute.com@localhost> wrote:
> Should this work?

Maybe, but it's not a good idea. There's no guarantee that it will
work, let's say.

Backwards compatibility is something the NetBSD developers work
toward. Forward compatibility is not.

You should add packages from whatever the latest build is for your
kernel level, or one which is lower.

Something like this:

pkg_add -v 
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/macppc/5.0_2010Q1/All/<pkgname>

My preference is to sync the current pkgsrc directory and build
everything myself. I always use "make package", that way there is a
binary package built in pkgsrc/packages/All/ for me. I know that
package will work on my box, and probably continue to work as long as
I upgrade kernels. In the future if I need to uninstall or rebuild the
box, I can re-add the packages like this:

pkg_add -v /path/to/pkgsrc/packages/All/<pkgname>

All of the dependencies will be there as well since they got built
during the "make package" process.

Andy