From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 12 16:20:11 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D3B97106564A for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:20:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beckman@angryox.com) Received: from nog.angryox.com (nog.angryox.com [70.164.19.87]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACCB48FC14 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:20:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beckman@angryox.com) Received: by nog.angryox.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BC08F2C3B3A; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:20:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nog.angryox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BB1D32C3B38; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:20:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:20:10 -0500 From: Peter Beckman To: Garrett Cooper In-Reply-To: <7d6fde3d0812112146o28596b11vdf730f2b3afc9759@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <7d6fde3d0812112146o28596b11vdf730f2b3afc9759@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portupgrade and freebsd-update: A better way? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:20:11 -0000 On Thu, 11 Dec 2008, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Peter Beckman wrote: > >> You get a few production servers with 200+ ports installed, and upgrading >> could take several days and lots of headaches and a lot of babysitting. >> >> Is there a better way? Does portsnap or portmanager or portupgrade keep >> track? What have I missed? > > 7.x and 6.2 aren't ABI compatible, so unfortunately no, you have to > babysit a bit. Is there some sort of chart that shows binary application compatibility between FreeBSD versions? That'd be handy. It took me a bit to find out that GENERIC now included SMP, but several google searches have led me to no good data. I found this: http://people.freebsd.org/~deischen/symver/library_versioning.txt But `cat /usr/src/lib/libc/Versions.def` got me no real data. I did also find this: http://wiki.freebsd.org/VendorInformation "No compatibility for API and ABI is guaranteed from one to the next major release, though an effort is made to make the upgrade process and source code changes as untroubled as possible." Is it safe to assume ABI compatibility between minor releases (6.1 -> 6.2) and must recompile everything between major releases (6.3 -> 7.0)? Beckman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Internet Guy beckman@angryox.com http://www.angryox.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------