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Old 3rd June 2008
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Originally Posted by ai-danno View Post
the installation to -stable and still use these same packages?
The short answer is "yes".

There are no underlying library changes between -release & -stable, so using -release packages on a -stable system should present no problems.

As you already mentioned, the practice of providing security updates to the -stable ports tree is currently discontinued. This topic periodically flares up on misc@ inciting the masses, & didn't impress a member here when it came up a few weeks ago:

http://daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=507
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