Re: OSABI

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

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, but 7.0_PATCH might be to 7.0. There are no rules
in place because noone ever agreed on what they should be.

Joerg