From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 26 19:17:00 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx2.freebsd.org (mx2.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55BDF1065672 for ; Thu, 26 May 2011 19:17:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from 65-241-43-5.globalsuite.net (hub.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::36]) by mx2.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33D1E1A3FD7; Thu, 26 May 2011 19:16:23 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4DDEA706.9060505@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 12:16:22 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110429 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthias Apitz References: <20110526083718.GA28784@sh4-5.1blu.de> In-Reply-To: <20110526083718.GA28784@sh4-5.1blu.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CURRENT && /usr/ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 19:17:00 -0000 On 05/26/2011 01:37, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm running -CURRENT on my laptop (r220692 from ~mid of April) and > /usr/ports from CVS from the same day; I want from time to time (let's > says once a week) SVN update my kernel and userland; I know that these > two should be in sync, but what about the ports? I have installed around > 1200 ports I'm used to use. Is there any special note in /usr/src/UPDATING > when the ABI changes and would break the compiled ports? I've been using -current on my laptop for years and have run into this problem less than a handful of times. As a general principle you don't need to be concerned about it. OTOH, if you are using ports that are tied into the source tree (like nvidia modules, fuse, virtualbox, etc.) then of course you should rebuild those ports after you update your system. hth, Doug -- Nothin' ever doesn't change, but nothin' changes much. -- OK Go Breadth of IT experience, and depth of knowledge in the DNS. Yours for the right price. :) http://SupersetSolutions.com/