Install of pkg fuse-ntfs fails because of undefined symbol in pkg!?!

Steve Wills swills at FreeBSD.org
Thu Feb 9 17:03:46 UTC 2017


Hi,

On 02/09/2017 12:00, Franco Fichtner wrote:
> 
> Let me try another way:
> 
> Since pkg has feature macros for building correctly on different
> FreeBSD versions, namely 10.0, 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3, the way to
> provide binaries without missing symbols is to build pkg with a
> fixed set of feature macros for 10.0.
> 
> I've done this for projects to retain upgrade paths.  It's not
> hard.  It doesn't violate a policy or promise FreeBSD makes, does
> it?
> 

Just because you don't use any features of the newer version doesn't
mean it's safe to run binaries built for the newer version on the older
version, as far as I understand it.

Steve


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