Re: 7-stable packages on 7.0-release system?

2008-08-10 Thread Torgeir Hoffmann
Hi again! I assume that it is not advisable, but what can I expect to happen if I try to use packages for 7-stable on a 7.0-release system? No, it is not advisable. I tried: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-June/177553.html Thanks for pointing this out! Not

Re: 7-stable packages on 7.0-release system?

2008-08-10 Thread Warren Liddell
On Sunday 10 August 2008 20:05:14 Torgeir Hoffmann wrote: Hi again! I assume that it is not advisable, but what can I expect to happen if I try to use packages for 7-stable on a 7.0-release system? No, it is not advisable. I tried:

Re: 7-stable packages on 7.0-release system?

2008-08-10 Thread Matthew Seaman
Torgeir Hoffmann wrote: Please excuse me for branching this thread off into another loosely related question. But then, if I am to use this laptop of mine for work (nothing critical): How stable is 7-stable? Can I upgrade to 7-stable via freebsd-update? RELENG_7 is very stable. It is a

Re: 7-stable packages on 7.0-release system?

2008-08-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 9, 2008, at 8:06 AM, Torgeir Hoffmann wrote: Are packages for 7-stable mostly binary compatible with 7.0-release? Or should I just upgrade to 7-stable? Can 7-stable be trusted to run smoothly in most cases? I saw in one thread on the freebsd-stable list that 7-stable was more like

Re: 7-stable packages on 7.0-release system?

2008-08-09 Thread Jan Henrik Sylvester
Torgeir wrote: I assume that it is not advisable, but what can I expect to happen if I try to use packages for 7-stable on a 7.0-release system? No, it is not advisable. I tried: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2008-June/177553.html As I said two weeks ago, that failure