Martin Husemann <[email protected]> writes: > On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 09:26:29PM +0100, [email protected] wrote: >> Just WTF? Same goes on with mytop and other not that common packages. Can't >> you create a decent binary set for all your repos? > > The binary pkgs are perfectly fine, the question is if pkg_add should be > less restrictive by default in this case (and opinions on that differ).
Does anybody really believe pkg_add should fail to add an 8.0 package on an 8.1 machine? we have a rule that 8.0 and 8.1 are ABI compatible. I can see the point that osabi is perhaps bigger than what's covered by the rule, and that one might want to be more careful, but I don't see that it's helpful to users to fail by default on a mismatch within a stable branch.
