From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 8 20:13:25 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA6EB16A480 for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:13:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from philip@ridecharge.com) Received: from EXHUB015-3.exch015.msoutlookonline.net (exhub015-3.exch015.msoutlookonline.net [207.5.72.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C030B13C48A for ; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:13:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from philip@ridecharge.com) Received: from philip.hq.rws (74.93.213.161) by smtpx15.msoutlookonline.net (207.5.72.103) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.0.744.0; Thu, 8 Nov 2007 12:13:18 -0800 Message-ID: <47336DDC.1020206@riderway.com> Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 15:13:16 -0500 From: "Philip M. Gollucci" Organization: Riderway Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070919) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Seaman , Mario Lobo , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200711081455.39635.cesar@expresso.com.br> <200711081448.48390.mario.lobo@ipad.com.br> <20071108183239.GA65453@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4733633E.2050800@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20071108195436.GA67970@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20071108195436.GA67970@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 20:13:25 -0000 Roland Smith wrote: > Port upgrade tools are not guaranteed to work perfectly in this > situation. I tried doing an update with portmanager and ended up with > some binaries linked against both libc.so.6 and libc.so.7! Some ports > didn't even compile. Yeah, I almost always delete packages during an OS upgrade and re-install them. Plus it justs makes me feel like the system is 'clean' Really, you'd want to recompile everything anyway for the libc.so.6 -> libc.so.7 bump even if the port version didn't change. Yes, you can use /etc/libmap.conf and/or compat6x but this is just so much nicer. Also, when new releases come out, new packages are built, so -P is your friend and the packages will quite up-to-date with whats in the port tree since they were just built. > It took me about a day and a night to reinstall everything (415 ports), > mostly un-attended. But then I don't use OpenOffice nor java and fvwm2 > instead of Gnome/KDE. On another note, I generally do a pkg_add -r xorg to start that off Finally, I've taken serveral (~50) boxes from 5.3 -> 8.0-current via source updates with 0 problems. I've even gone down from 8-7.0BETA1.5 (that was a little painful) and then back to 8.0. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Philip M. Gollucci (philip@ridecharge.com) o:703.549.2050x206 Senior System Admin - Riderway, Inc. http://riderway.com / http://ridecharge.com 1024D/EC88A0BF 0DE5 C55C 6BF3 B235 2DAB B89E 1324 9B4F EC88 A0BF Work like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt, and dance like nobody's watching.