Not recommended. We have backwards compatibility but not necessarily forwards compatibility within a stable branch; running a 13.4 userland on a 13.3 kernel could break horribly.
(My guess is that it's probably fine, simply because not much has happened on stable/13 in the last 6 months. But it's not uncommon to have e.g. new syscalls MFCed.)
I never said that it's recommended, just that you could do it.
Actually I completely agree with what you say. I've been forced to try at work a few times though, due to stupid reasons, it has worked out every time except once. Exactly due to what you mention.
The one time it didn't work out things exploded beautifully, so the stupid policy that we can't reboot is now scrapped. :-)
cperciva|1 year ago
(My guess is that it's probably fine, simply because not much has happened on stable/13 in the last 6 months. But it's not uncommon to have e.g. new syscalls MFCed.)
Abrothies|1 year ago
Actually I completely agree with what you say. I've been forced to try at work a few times though, due to stupid reasons, it has worked out every time except once. Exactly due to what you mention.
The one time it didn't work out things exploded beautifully, so the stupid policy that we can't reboot is now scrapped. :-)