Subject: Re: Upgrading from 1.3A
To: Todd Vierling <tv@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Neil A. Carson <neil@causality.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 05/29/1998 22:33:29
Todd Vierling wrote:

> On Fri, 29 May 1998, Martin Tee wrote:
> 
> : I would be grateful for any help with upgrading NetBSD on a RPC SA.
> :
> : I am running NetBSD1.3A originally loaded from the CDrom. To upgrade
> : to 1.3.1 or even 1.3.2
> 
> If "1.3A" is the version number you see when you do "uname -r", you aren't
> running 1.3; you are running NetBSD-current around the time NetBSD 1.3 was
> released.  Your old binaries would then _not_ work on NetBSD 1.3.1 or 1.3.2,
> as 1.3.1 or 1.3.2 would constitute a kernel *downgrade*.

When 1.3A is referred to here, I think it normally means 1.3 alpha.
Therefore, no problem.