Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:12:07 -0600 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "John Hein" <jhein@timing.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-ports-local@be-well.ilk.org> Subject: Re: update from 6 to 7 - needs libtool rebuild Message-ID: <op.uklcm4dm9aq2h7@localhost> In-Reply-To: <18716.41555.397011.981079@gromit.timing.com> References: <18716.24188.971858.627073@gromit.timing.com> <44od0jtim2.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <18716.41555.397011.981079@gromit.timing.com>
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On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:55:31 -0600, John Hein <jhein@timing.com> wrote: > Lowell Gilbert wrote at 16:35 -0500 on Nov 13, 2008: > > John Hein <jhein@timing.com> writes: > > > So my question is: is this documented and/or widely known? A full > > > portupgrade wouldn't help if you were up to date on libtool in 6.x > > > before updating (unless portupgrade -f is used). > > > > But you've *always* needed to rebuild *all* your ports when system > > libraries got a version bump. Symbol versioning may make this less of > > an issue in the future, but even then I'll be expecting to do it when > I > > make major version jumps. > > I often don't rebuild everything right away and live with the compat > libs for a while. As long as you don't use ports tree. Once you need someting by via ports tree then you have to rebuild/reinstall everything before you try to install some new ports. Cheers, Mezz > That has worked fine in the past (probably had some hiccups that I've > long since forgotten about). But I understand why the official > position is to rebuild everything. > > > > > Would it be worth documenting this in UPDATING (if I haven't > > > missed it somewhere)? > > > > It's in the release notes for every (I think) release. Other places > > might make sense also, I guess... > > I don't see it at the moment (looking at 6.3's relnotes), but > I didn't look too hard. > > Thanks for the answers. -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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