Hi Ingo, On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Ingo Schwarze <[email protected]> wrote:
> That's not a good plan at all. Sometimes, new binaries work on > old versions and vice versa, but in general, that's not the case. > So if you ship packages for 5.2-stable (well, actually, 5.2-obsolete), > you force your users to use 5.2-obsolete. Not so great. > > For example, if one of your users chooses to run 5.5 (which would > be a good idea), your 5.2 packages will *not* run on that at all. Ok, got it. My understanding was that binaries complied on older systems have a better chance of running correctly on newer systems than the other way around. It's all about limiting a number of build machines, nothing else. >> or is "Foo(failed)" enough information for a typical OpenBSD user? > > Usually not, to debug a failure, you often need more than that. > But it's sufficent to understand that there was some kind of a > failure, so you can re-run with the -d option and look at the > output in detail. That's good enough. As long as a typical OpenBSD used doesn't expect anything more there it's fine with me. Best regards, ML
