two crashes

Matthias matthias_play at gmx.net
Sat Nov 8 05:56:20 PST 2014


Yes, you are right.

Adding a few sentences to the documentation e.g., the handbook would be nice in order to make it easier for new users installing RC versions or master in release preparation times.

Regards
Matthias

John Marino <dragonflybsd at marino.st> schrieb:

>On 11/7/2014 23:07, Matthias wrote:
>> Thanks Matt for your explanation.
>> 
>> This also means that this ABI pkg problem always occurrs during release
>> time for a short time period for RC versions and the master branch?
>
>what "problem" ?
>
>3.6  => 3.6
>3.7  => 3.8
>3.8  => 3.8
>3.9  => 3.10
>3.10 => 3.10
>3.11 => 3.12
>4.0  => 4.0
>4.1  => 4.2
>4.2  => 4.2
>
>That's how it's supposed to be, specifically to avoid busting all
>packages the second the release is branched.
>had 4.0 packages been in place before RC was announced, nobody would
>have noticed.  There's no problem except people didn't know how to tell
>pkg to use packages with different but compatible ABI as a workaround.
>
>John
>




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