On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 02:28:05PM -0200, Jo?o Salvatti wrote:
> I have installed on my machine the OpenBSD release 3.8. So, if I
> download the source code from a more recent release, compile and
> install it, will the current installed binaries, such as top, mount,
> disklabel, and many others in /bin, /sbin, /usr/bin, etc... work with
> this new kernel? If so, why do I need to update all my packages every
> a new version of the system is released?
>
because there are new librarys, so 3rd party software has to be
correctly built against new ones.
- Lukasz Sztachanski
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