From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 19 21:52:28 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0C8716A41A for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:52:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net (ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net [80.76.149.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4595C13C47E for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:52:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from erikt@midgard.homeip.net) Received: from c83-253-25-183.bredband.comhem.se ([83.253.25.183]:51239 helo=falcon.midgard.homeip.net) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1IizlW-0004a1-4W for questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:52:22 +0200 Received: (qmail 91858 invoked from network); 19 Oct 2007 23:52:15 +0200 Received: from owl.midgard.homeip.net (10.1.5.7) by falcon.midgard.homeip.net with ESMTP; 19 Oct 2007 23:52:15 +0200 Received: (qmail 76801 invoked by uid 1001); 19 Oct 2007 23:52:15 +0200 Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 23:52:15 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson To: Doug Poland Message-ID: <20071019215215.GA76786@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Mail-Followup-To: Doug Poland , questions@freebsd.org References: <47191A24.8010309@polands.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47191A24.8010309@polands.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Originating-IP: 83.253.25.183 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1IizlW-0004a1-4W. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1IizlW-0004a1-4W e4918b296fb32b91ddd8be8c7a342dfb Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports and updating 6.2-STABLE to 7.0-PRERELEASE 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: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 21:52:28 -0000 On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:57:08PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: > Hello, > > I've just updated my system to 7.0-PRERELEASE from 6.2-STABLE on i386 and I > was wondering what the recommendation is for ports. Specifically, is it > necessary to rebuild all ports? > > So far, I haven't rebuilt any ports and haven't had any problems... It is not strictly necessary to rebuild all ports, but I would recommend it and if you start to install any new ports then you should rebuild all the old ones first. Having some ports linked against 6.x libraries while some are linked against 7.x libraries can very easily lead to problems. (If one of your old ports (linked against 6.x libraries) provides some library which is used by one of the new ports (using 7.x libraries) then the new port can end up using two version of the same system library - both the 6.x version and the 7.x version. This will almost certainly not work correctly.) -- Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se