Re: OSABI

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 10:38:10PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2016 at 08:06:54PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 02, 2016 at 09:43:30PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > When comparing 7.0.1 to 7.0, is it reasonable for the match to fail?
> > e.g., my guess is that those package are built on 7.0.1 with pkgver=7.0,
> > so should be fine - is that true? If so, do we want a
> > 
> > NetBSD)
> >             OS_VERSION=`echo "${OS_VERSION}" | \
> >                     sed -e's/\([0-9]*\.[0-9]*\).*/\1/'`
> 
> We certainly don't want x.99.y to be compatible with x.99.z; more
> difficult are the questions for the rest. E.g. 7.0 and 7.1 should not be
> considered compatible,

why ? I use 6.0 packages on 6.1.x or 6.1_STABLE hosts without problems.
This is what backward compat is for.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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