On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 5:38 AM, Pierre Abbat <p...@phma.optus.nu> wrote: > On Wednesday, March 28, 2012 22:39:22 Justin Sherrill wrote: >> The people this would inconvenience is anyone upgrading from 3.0.1 or >> 3.0.2 to 3.0.3; your binary package target would change to a newer >> release, so you would end up needing to upgrade your pkgsrc software, >> if you're installing with binary packages. If you only build pkgsrc >> software from source, you can move to 2012Q1 at your leisure. > > Are you saying that there's a new version of pkg_radd or pkgin, and the old > version won't handle new packages?
No. 3.0.x is using pkgsrc-2011Q4. If I build pkgsrc-2012Q1 packages for 3.0.3, you will be getting newer binary packages. That is all. For example, let's say package A depended on package B version 5. You have packages A and B installed. You upgrade to 3.0.3, with pkgsrc-2012Q1, with newer versions of some packages. You install package C, which depends on B version 6. This will mean you'd need to also need to upgrade to the new version of B, since C depends on B, and a new version of A, since A depends on B.
