How many binaries packages are build against a specific FreeBSD version?

Logicien

Logicien

Hello,
VirtualBox is still build against FreeBSD 13.0 and is not compatible yet with FreeBSD 13.1. Is there a lot of binaries packages who are build against a specific FreeBSD version and must be rebuild against an higher and even lower version?

Maybe only the ones who compile external modules for the kernel.
 
Logicien said:
Maybe only the ones who compile external modules for the kernel.
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Mostly this. Specifically emulators/virtualbox-ose-kmod and graphics/drm-kmod could be problematic. There might be some more but these two are the most 'problematic' of the 50.000+ ports/packages.

If you're worried about those type of packages, wait until 13.0 is actually EoL, then packages will get build for 13.1 specifically.
 
If I ask that it's because during a pkg upgrade or installation of new softwares there was a warning message who told me that a package was build against 13.0 and I use 13.1. I did'nt had the time to see which package it was. I was asking myself if this message can occur often. Thank-you of the answer.
 
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