From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 20 23:53:40 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E979C16A4CE for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:53:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from valentine.liquidneon.com (valentine.liquidneon.com [216.38.206.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE3DE43D1F for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:53:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from so14k@so14k.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by valentine.liquidneon.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F3EC867; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:53:40 -0600 (MDT) Received: from valentine.liquidneon.com ([216.38.206.180]) by localhost (valentine.liquidneon.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 50040-04; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:53:40 -0600 (MDT) Received: from boom.house.so14k.com (67-41-215-55.dnvr.qwest.net [67.41.215.55]) by valentine.liquidneon.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C118A377; Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:53:39 -0600 (MDT) From: Brad Davis To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:53:38 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 References: <20040920211231.89904.qmail@web53808.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040920211231.89904.qmail@web53808.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200409201753.38308.so14k@so14k.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at liquidneon.com cc: Gregor Mosheh Subject: Re: upgrade questions 4.10 -> 5-stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:53:41 -0000 On Monday 20 September 2004 15:12, Gregor Mosheh wrote: > I thought I'd ask here... > > I'm currently running FreeBSD 4.10, and would like to > upgrade to a 5.x because of the superior jail support. > > Which version would you recommend for someone who's > really interested in jail support, but doesn't like to > live dangerously? Of my hardware, the only item of > note is that I use FreeBSD 4.10's ehci driver for USB > 2.0 devices. > > One of the notes in /usr/src/UPDATING was that GCC had > been upgraded from my current 2.95 to 3.4 and there > are known compatibility problems with the ABI (what's > an ABI? the .so's?) Will this upgrade force me to > recompile all of my existing C++ stuff, e.g. Postgres > and PostGIS, or will my existing binaries continue to > run? You should wait for 5.3-RELEASE. You will have to recompile every application you use. A doc on upgrading from 4.x to 5.x should be along when 5.3 is released. Regards, Brad -- Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers. -- Leonard Brandwein