On 2/2/16 2:09 PM, Alan Amesbury wrote:> First off.... Yes, I know 9.1-RELEASE is deprecated. I want to run
something newer, but circumstances require I can't for now.
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> Traditionally in FreeBSD -STABLE (as in 9-STABLE) referred to the APIs as
being stable, i.e., stuff compiled within the same major release would generally
run on versions within that release... or so I recall. I have an instance where
I have a need to run 9.1-RELEASE, but my package building infrastructure is all
centered around 9.3-RELEASE or later. Based on my (possibly incorrect)
understanding of How Things Are[tm], I think packages built for 9.3-RELEASE will
generally run on 9.1-RELEASE. Does this sound generally correct, or am I
totally off base here? Any major pitfalls I should know of?
>
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It's possible they may work, but that is not guaranteed.
Packages built on 9.1 should work on 9.3.
Packages built on 9.3 may work on 9.1, but that would only be by chance.
-Alfred