At 12:10 PM -0500 11/21/01, Stefan Jeglinski wrote:
>From the beginning of November, Matthew wrote:
>
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>>1. There are no packages for mac68K listed in the 
>><ftp://ftp.netbsd.org//pub/NetBSD/packages/1.5.2/> directory. 
>>However, the 1.5 directory is fully populated. Is it proper to use 
>>those packages?
>
>Yep, no problems at all. NetBSD works with all the old packages. You 
>can remove this feature when you compile a custom kernel, but for 
>the one you're using, they'll work wonderfully.
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>
>I'm not clear on this meaning. I just installed 1.5.2 on a cx and 
>was planning to install binaries from the 1.5.0 directory instead of 
>rebuilding from source. But this seems to say if I compile the 
>kernel myself, I can't use 1.5.0 binaries?

No, you can compile a kernel yourself and still use those packages. 
Likely, what he was referring to was the options COMPAT_xx options in 
the kernel config file. These actually only deal with major versions 
of NetBSD, so there is no COMPAT_151...the latest is COMPAT_14 for 
NetBSD-1.4.x binary compatibility.

HTH
Mike
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