Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:39:17 -0500 From: Michael S <msherman77@gmail.com> To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Upgrading 5.3 to 6.0 question Message-ID: <d5f57b9c0601311339o17b69b4fl7f43d455be78ecf3@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <FFF8C535-9B0F-4E00-BBBA-2DAEDD0A9C55@mac.com> References: <d5f57b9c0601311228u44ca4e1ah3ea4a03bd64a6683@mail.gmail.com> <FFF8C535-9B0F-4E00-BBBA-2DAEDD0A9C55@mac.com>
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Thanks a lot. On 1/31/06, Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > On Jan 31, 2006, at 3:28 PM, Michael S wrote: > > I have a question related to upgrading my machine from 5.3 to 6.0. > > I am convinced I need to upgrade it, and the base system upgrade > > procedure is pretty much clear to me. However I am somewhat not clear > > about 3rd party software. Since all the programs are 5.X binaries, do > > I need to recompile/reinstall all of them? Or they can run fine under > > COMPAT_FREEBSD5? > > So long as the FreeBSD 5 binary compatibility option is present, all > of your existing binaries will run just fine under FreeBSD 6. > However, anything which you can rebuild or reinstall should be > upgraded (perhaps via "portupgrade -af"?) as soon as convenient, to > avoid mixing two versions of the shared libraries together. > > -- > -Chuck > >
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