On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 11:11:10AM +0000, [email protected] wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 12:13:52PM +1000, Ray Phillips wrote:
> > Thanks for responding Hubert and Stephen. Unfortunately it turns out
> > I was wasting your time. I do have the old binaries (which were
> > compiled on 7.0.1) but I've discovered they're x86-64 binaries. I
> > must have upgraded an amd64 7.0.1 system (on a USB key in this case)
> > to i386 7.0.2. :(
> >
> > BTW, a few years ago I upgraded an i386 system (I'm not sure what the
> > pre and post upgrade versions were now) and afterwards sendmail didn't
> > run properly. Recompiling the sleepycat database and sendmail cured
> > the problem that time. That system had been upgraded several times
> > before without any issues. Is it generally wise to expect programs
> > will need to be recompiled when going from one major version number to
> > another? Is there any way to check if it'll be necessary before doing
> > the upgrade?
> >
> >
> > Ray
>
> For *most* things, there is a strong emphasis on backwards compatibility.
> To the point that if you upgrade a NetBSD 1.5 system to NetBSD 7.99.x,
> and some program fails to run, it will be probably considered a bug.
I hope I'm not talking out of my ass too much, but yeah. people seem
to care about keeping stuff still working in upgrades.
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