pkg_add question

[Stefan Bethke]

Am 09.08.2006 um 15:43 schrieb V.I.Victor:

> Generally -- is it OK to do a 'pkg_add' from
> 'packages-6-stable' to a 5.4 system?

No.  You might get away with putting a 6-stable package on a 6.1  
system, but only if you're lucky.  Packages compiled for newer  
releases will never* work on older releases.  You need to build from  
ports.


Stefan

* There's trivial software that might work, but there is absolutly no  
guaranty.

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