Re: waist of time

From: Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve_at_sohara.org>
Date: Mon, 01 May 2023 21:23:42 UTC
On Sun, 30 Apr 2023 14:24:35 -0400
LuMiWa <lumiwa@dismail.de> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> After ugrade FreeBSD 13.1 to 13.2 Release I did update packages. It was
> ewais of time because lloks like many of the were build on FreeBSD
> 13.1. It is learning for the future.

	This is normal - FreeBSD maintains ABI compatibility throughout a
major release cycle so packages build on N.0 will run on N.m for all m. The
reverse might not be true. This ball has occasionally been dropped but very
rarely. 

	The general aim is to build packages for a major release on the
oldest version that is still supported so that they will run on all
supported versions.

-- 
Steve O'Hara-Smith <steve@sohara.org>