Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2007 15:13:16 -0500 From: "Philip M. Gollucci" <pgollucci@riderway.com> To: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk>, Mario Lobo <mario.lobo@ipad.com.br>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: About Freebsd 7.0 versus 6.3 Message-ID: <47336DDC.1020206@riderway.com> In-Reply-To: <20071108195436.GA67970@slackbox.xs4all.nl> References: <200711081455.39635.cesar@expresso.com.br> <bef9a7920711080928t76efabaaw4af6c85be7fb03a@mail.gmail.com> <200711081448.48390.mario.lobo@ipad.com.br> <20071108183239.GA65453@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <4733633E.2050800@infracaninophile.co.uk> <20071108195436.GA67970@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
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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.
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