From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 24 15:45:52 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from web21007.mail.yahoo.com (web21007.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.227.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5FF6B37B402 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:45:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20020124234549.23631.qmail@web21007.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [66.3.230.249] by web21007.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 23:45:49 GMT Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 23:45:49 +0000 (GMT) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Matt=20Sykes?= Subject: recompile ports when update kernel/userland? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG tracking 4.4-stable. Should I expect a few ports to be broken after I rebuild the kernel and userland? I guess I don't quite believe that binary compatibility exists in the real world. I know that updating the kernel without updating the base userland can cause problems, so it seems like I should rebuild all my ports. If there is any chance that any port will be broken any percent of the time, I'll just rebuild everything to be safe. Even though a port may appear to be okay without recompilation, it could fail in an unexpected way at some point. But maybe this is not the case? What are your experiences here? --Matt __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message