From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 26 15:50:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.yourfit.com (28.wxfr1.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.150.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77FA237BFA8 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:50:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from behanna@zbzoom.net) Received: from armani.yourfit.com (armani.yourfit.com [192.168.1.120]) by mail.yourfit.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA27254; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 18:49:51 -0400 Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 18:49:51 -0400 (Eastern Daylight Time) From: Chris BeHanna Reply-To: Chris BeHanna To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: kstewart@urx.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: README.TXT and RELNOTES.TXT not updated before release tag? In-Reply-To: <879.964649832@localhost> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > It was a generic one. We now have new binary libraries and it > > would seem that some ports could be affected by the change from > > 4.0 to 4.1. There were some drastic changes to the binutils and > > etc. > > There's no generic answer to your generic question. :-) > > The answer, of course, is "it depends." With over 3600 ports, it's > simply not possible to enumerate the list of potentially affected > ports. Simply proceed forward cautiously using your best judgement > as to when and how you upgrade a 3rd-party component. I learned the hard way that you will probably want to rebuild your X server (I booted RC0 and got a black screen, from which I couldn't even escape to a virtual terminal). Aside from that, whatever spits out unresolved symbols or dumps core. Ain't I helpful? :-) -- Chris BeHanna Software Engineer (at yourfit.com) behanna@zbzoom.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message