Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2012 16:31:56 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein <egrosbein@rdtc.ru> To: Mike Pumford <mpumford@mpcdata.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Seeking 6.4 make source for ports Message-ID: <4FE1988C.2050000@rdtc.ru> In-Reply-To: <4FE19542.1020802@mpcdata.com> References: <20120620045759.GY42080@manor.msen.com> <op.wf60domq8527sy@ronaldradial.versatec.local> <4FE19542.1020802@mpcdata.com>
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20.06.2012 16:17, Mike Pumford пишет: > Ronald Klop wrote: > >> Do you have a problem yourself or did you just found some messages on >> google? >> I presume you are running 6.3 yourself. Why don't you upgrade the OS to >> 6.4 or 7+, but you do upgrade the ports on an unsupported OS? >> > It is a little mind boggling. Unless required I wouldn't even recompile > my ports when moving a system from 6.3 to 6.4. In fact I've got an > internal system here that started life as 5.3 BETA and have been > upgraded all the way to 7.4 via 6.4 with pretty much no downtime apart > from the installworld part of the source upgrade. All the 5.x compiled > ports ran fine on the 7.4 system until I got round to recompiling them. You are not required to recompile ports when upgrading within major release, e.g. from 6.x to 6.4. There is no one reason to do that. They all will work just as usual. Eugene Grosbein
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