From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 22 18:56:24 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4FCF16A4E1 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:56:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from todorov@paladin.bulgarpress.com) Received: from gregorian.transpress.bg (gregorian.transpress.bg [82.147.129.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDE7D43D45 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:56:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from todorov@paladin.bulgarpress.com) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by gregorian.transpress.bg (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CD3AE5; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:58:43 +0300 (EEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gregorian.transpress.bg Received: from gregorian.transpress.bg ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gregorian.transpress.bg [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id Ud5tE+Jlo4wc; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:58:42 +0300 (EEST) Received: from [192.168.6.8] (unknown [87.126.135.207]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by gregorian.transpress.bg (Postfix) with ESMTP id D66B387; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:58:41 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <44EB5354.6070007@paladin.bulgarpress.com> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:56:20 +0300 From: "Todorov @ Paladin" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Vivek Khera References: <5B7BD83A-6316-4C20-903E-B5D66D4F2642@khera.org> In-Reply-To: <5B7BD83A-6316-4C20-903E-B5D66D4F2642@khera.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: 5.5 to 6.1 upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:56:25 -0000 Vivek Khera написа: > > On Aug 22, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > >>> It shouldn't be necessary to rebuild ports before the upgrade. If >>> there is something running that is critical, you might want to upgrade >> [ ... ] >> Good to confirm. I haven't so many ports installed that I couldn't >> start from scratch if it all fell over, so I can play with ports and >> packages till I finally learn how to use all the tools effectively. > > you *really* want to rebuild anything that uses shared libs from the > ports tree, or anything that is a shared lib in the ports tree. Things > that only use base system libs and don't do any dyanamic loading of > external object code are safe to leave alone, as long as they don't > provide shared objects. > > don't find this out the hard way :-( > How to find which is dynamically using libs and which application is not? This is something I was wondering before... Thank you in advance.