tech-pkg: Re: Using binary packages on different NetBSD versions.

Subject: Re: Using binary packages on different NetBSD versions.
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 02/10/2000 15:31:50

On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 12:34:00AM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> 	AFAIK binary packages should be compatible across
> 	1.3 1.3.1 1.3.2
> 	and
> 	1.4 1.4.1 1.4.2
> 
> 	but we dont go out of our way to mention this.

Is this really true ?
If so why do we have a packages/1.4 and packages/1.4.1 on the ftp server ?
Just using packages/1.4.x would make maintenance of binary packages easier.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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