From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 16 18:45:36 2005 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 C530716A41F for ; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 18:45:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from nagual.st (cc20684-a.assen1.dr.home.nl [82.74.2.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1119643D48 for ; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 18:45:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dick@nagual.st) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by nagual.st with local; Sun, 16 Oct 2005 20:45:34 +0200 id 000000BD.43529FCE.0000C908 Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 20:45:34 +0200 To: freebsd-questions Message-ID: <20051016184534.GB51424@lothlorien.nagual.st> References: <200510152346.RAA20742@lariat.net> <20051016135752.6bcc6874.dick@nagual.st> <200510162020.21353.lofi@freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200510162020.21353.lofi@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i From: Dick Hoogendijk Subject: Re: 6.0 release date and stability 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: Sun, 16 Oct 2005 18:45:36 -0000 On 16 Oct Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Sunday, 16. October 2005 18:34, Ronald Klop wrote: > > > There are a couple of options: > > 1. Do not remove old (5.4) libraries. All 5.4 libs wil still be found. > > 2. Remove old libraries and install ports/misc/compat5x. All 5.4 lib wil > > still be found. > 1. and 2. are not an option if you plan on eventually compiling new > ports after the upgrade - you will most certainly get mixed linkage, > which will result in runtime errors. > > Compat5x should only be used for leaf-ports (i.e, applications and > libraries which aren't linked to anything else) - for example software > that is distributed as dynamically linked binaries only. > > Option 4 is certainly the safest thing to do (and you could just upgrade from > binary packages instead of recompiling). OK, you're right. Portupgrade -afPP should do the trick. One question after reading the answers: how do I get rid of the *old* 5.4-libraries? Since they are kind of a threat to the new 6.0 system. -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.11-stable ++ FreeBSD 5.4 + Nai tiruvantel ar vayuvantel i Valar tielyanna nu vilja