From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 24 16: 0: 4 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8433E37B400 for ; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:59:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from sdn-ar-004dcwashp231.dialsprint.net ([206.133.21.247] helo=moo.holy.cow) by snipe.prod.itd.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16Ttmg-0000j1-00; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 15:59:59 -0800 Received: by moo.holy.cow (Postfix, from userid 1001) id F057A50BCF; Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:01:59 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 19:01:59 -0500 From: parv To: Matt Sykes Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recompile ports when update kernel/userland? Message-ID: <20020125000159.GA71410@moo.holy.cow> Mail-Followup-To: Matt Sykes , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20020124234549.23631.qmail@web21007.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020124234549.23631.qmail@web21007.mail.yahoo.com> 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 in message <20020124234549.23631.qmail@web21007.mail.yahoo.com>, wrote Matt Sykes thusly... > ... > 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. ... consciously, i have not experienced incompatibility between an already installed ports and newer world. the only problems, sometimes, that i had were whilst building a port after new world w/o newer ports tree. that ... or, i had not been very observant of these kinds of problems. - parv -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message