Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 19:25:31 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1012447198.6e7be9@mired.org> Cc: Matt Sykes <mattmsykes@yahoo.co.uk>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recompile ports when update kernel/userland? Message-ID: <20020125192531.A72457@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <15442.8286.420762.367881@guru.mired.org>; from mwm-dated-1012447198.6e7be9@mired.org on Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 09:19:58PM -0600 References: <108067245@toto.iv> <15442.8286.420762.367881@guru.mired.org>
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--qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 09:19:58PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> types: > > > Should I expect a few ports to be broken after I rebuild=3D20 > > > the kernel and userland? I guess I don't quite believe=3D20 > > > that binary compatibility exists in the real world. > > There are only one or two ports which may sometimes break when you > > upgrade the kernel; they do so because they expect to be able to > > grovel around inside kernel memory and know where to find things. > > This may change over time. lsof is the only such port which springs > > to mind, but there might be others. >=20 > I think the count is higher than one or two. cdrecord - now cdrtools - > has broken in the past. However, I'd be surprised if more than one or > two broke across any upgrade that stretch across more than one release > other than a .0 one. Well, my point was that out of 6500 ports the overwhelming majority (100%-epsilon) won't care and will continue to work fine. Kris --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8UiGrWry0BWjoQKURAq9DAJsGWOG7rJ2E5nhvsTeQgxSe2v+TbQCeNAQJ wzVTPIaEIhfnsSaPjahQDtw= =c1GN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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