From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 31 20:35:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B66D916A420 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 20:35:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F95A43D49 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 20:35:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7306C5C56; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:35:19 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 38595-05; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:35:18 -0500 (EST) Received: from [199.103.21.238] (pan.codefab.com [199.103.21.238]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A528E5C16; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:35:18 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:35:17 -0500 To: Michael S X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: Upgrading 5.3 to 6.0 question 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: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 20:35:22 -0000 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