From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 25 19:25:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-131.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 832FA37B404 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 19:25:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E490166EF1; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 19:25:31 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 19:25:31 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Mike Meyer Cc: Matt Sykes , Kris Kennaway , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: recompile ports when update kernel/userland? Message-ID: <20020125192531.A72457@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <108067245@toto.iv> <15442.8286.420762.367881@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qMm9M+Fa2AknHoGS" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i 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 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 --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 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