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Date:      Sun, 29 Aug 2010 17:11:47 +0200
From:      Leslie Jensen <leslie@eskk.nu>
To:        Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Problems with portmaster after upgrade to 8.1-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <4C7A78B3.8030302@eskk.nu>
In-Reply-To: <20100829150716.GA99969@slackbox.erewhon.net>
References:  <4C7A74F8.2010501@eskk.nu> <20100829150716.GA99969@slackbox.erewhon.net>

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On 2010-08-29 17:07, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 04:55:52PM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote:
>> Hello list.
>>
>> I've upgraded a system from 8.0 to 8.1 and it went well :-)
>>
>> Followed the portmaster manpage on how to reinstall my ports.
>
> Why?
>
> You only have to re-install all ports when changing between major releases
> e.g. 7.x to 8.x. Point releases are binary compatible.
>
Because I had not updated the ports on that machine since march this 
year :-o

/L



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