netbsd-help: Re: novice question

Subject: Re: novice question
To: P.Sidiropoulos <pesid@kav.forthnet.gr>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/30/2001 12:53:01

On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, P.Sidiropoulos wrote:

>  Sorry to be so novice, My question is : in order to install a binary
> package which version should I download ?
> I have NetBSD 1.4.2 , do i have problem if idownload packages that compiled
> for netbsd 1.5 or newer versions?

YES. Don't do that. It's OK to use NetBSD-1.4.3 packages with 1.4.2.

Frederick