On 20/9/17 11:33AM, Warner Losh wrote:> FreeBSD has always had a policy of backwards compatibility. By that
definition we are stable. What we don't promise is full forwards
compatibility, which is what you are asking for.?
Correct. Within the stable branch I'd always assumed forward compatibility
was the case and haven't been bitten by this since my days of FreeBSD 3.0.
But even if this is no longer the case (or was never a goal), I'm still
confused by versioning packages like this: http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/ which
is clearly not correct. There is just no way for me to discover which package is
compatible with which OS version.
Anyhow, thanks for listening. This is putting a dent in my adoption of the
accelerated EOL of minor releases. At the very least I need to remember to keep
poudriere on the x.0 release even after it is EOL, until every one of my servers
has been upgraded (which is rarely before the new accelerated EOL for machines
that don't face the internet).
Ari
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