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Date:      Sun, 13 Oct 2002 04:27:27 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Hellmuth Michaelis <hm@kts.org>, FreeBSD-current Mailinglist <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: Old port recompiles needed (Re: Unknown symbol "__sF")
Message-ID:  <3DA9589F.C115181@mindspring.com>
References:  <20021013082248.BDB7454C4@bert.kts.org> <20021013083812.GA9050@xor.obsecurity.org> <20021013093802.GA9872@xor.obsecurity.org> <3DA952A1.8530348F@mindspring.com> <20021013111933.GA12332@xor.obsecurity.org>

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Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 04:01:53AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > Actually, this should only be required for old ports (older than some
> > > date which I don't know off-hand).  It might be easier to just rebuild
> > > everything though.
> >
> > This would be OK, if the X11 package came from the FreeBSD source
> > tree, instead of just as a binary on the CDROM (I hate that upgrading
> > a box breaks things... it should *never* break things, as long as you
> > don't tell it to remove old libraries).
> 
> If you can't deal with having to recompile things over the -current
> development cycle then don't run it.


Uh, the issue was the upcoming 5.0 release, which will cause these
same problems for people.

-- Terry

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