On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Quoting Christian Robottom Reis <kiko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > >> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 09:09:19PM +0200, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: >>> >>> I know but I'm not sure copying a binary between different >>> distributions (for instance, Gutsy and Hardy) makes sense, as the >>> binary would probably not work due to linkage issues. >> >> Copying forwards should be okay. Copying backwards will usually not work >> (unless the libraries really didn't break binary compat). > > Not necessarily. If I build for Gutsy but the library breaks ABI > compatibility in Hardy, the Gutsy binary won't work in Hardy (and of course > the Hardy binary won't work on Gutsy, either). That's a 'pathological' case and should be documented as such. It certainly will affect more than PPA copies. -- Celso Providelo <celso.providelo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> IRC: cprov, Jabber: cprov@xxxxxxxxxx, Skype: cprovidelo 1024D/681B6469 C858 2652 1A6E F6A6 037B B3F7 9FF2 583E 681B 6469
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