Re: pkg/46308: pkg_add should not display warnings for known compatible platform mismatches

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/46308; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/46308: pkg_add should not display warnings for known
 compatible platform mismatches
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2012 20:55:00 +0200

 On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 06:10:01PM +0000, jschauma%netmeister.org@localhost 
wrote:
 > pkg_add displays a warning whenever a package is installed for a platform 
 > that
 > does not match the current platform 100%.  Under NetBSD, however, we know 
 > that
 > certain platforms will be compatible.  In particular, any package built under
 > major version N should work on other hosts running major N, even if the build
 > and deploy hosts have different minor versions.
 
 That's not a correct assumption to make, IMO.
 
 Joerg