On 2008/01/06 13:00, Mihai Popescu B. S. wrote: > Are the packages updated (precompiled) for each snapshot ?
No, there are often 2 base snapshots a day, package snapshots take a fair bit longer than this to build. Usually this isn't a problem, things are close enough, but there are occasions when a package snap won't work on a freshly installed base snap (if this happens, you can just build from source, or if this is on a machine arch with frequent package snapshots e.g. i386, just wait a while). > What I want to do is to install an updated package (a greater version) on and > old already installed snapshot. Is it ok? pkg_add will complain if library versions are incorrect; this will account for the majority of problems, but there are some other changes which can take place in the OS which a newer package might depend on. You can always try it, if it doesn't work, update your base OS to a newer snapshot.
