From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 19 22:04:34 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 683FA16A417 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:04:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from ms-smtp-03.rdc-kc.rr.com (ms-smtp-03.rdc-kc.rr.com [24.94.166.129]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 032ED13C494 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 22:04:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Received: from corinth.polands.org (CPE-75-87-219-217.new.res.rr.com [75.87.219.217]) by ms-smtp-03.rdc-kc.rr.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l9JLvlRq027133 for ; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:57:54 -0500 (CDT) Received: from omnihp-rj45.polands.org (ammon.polands.org [172.16.1.7]) by corinth.polands.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l9JM4Mt2008428; Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:04:22 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from doug@polands.org) Message-ID: <471929E6.3050505@polands.org> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:04:22 -0500 From: Doug Poland User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070813) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Doug Poland , questions@freebsd.org References: <47191A24.8010309@polands.org> <20071019215215.GA76786@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20071019215215.GA76786@owl.midgard.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.4/4545/Wed Oct 17 16:05:57 2007 on corinth.polands.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: 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 22:04:34 -0000 Erik Trulsson wrote: > 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.) > > Thank you for the info, I think I'll rebuild my ports. I imagine I could then use # portsclean --libclean to get rid of those 6.x libraries and have a nice *clean* system. -- Regards, Doug