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On Aug 22, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Ian Smith wrote:

>> It shouldn't be necessary to rebuild ports before the upgrade.  If
>> there is something running that is critical, you might want to  
>> upgrade
> [ ... ]
> Good to confirm.  I haven't so many ports installed that I couldn't
> start from scratch if it all fell over, so I can play with ports and
> packages till I finally learn how to use all the tools effectively.

you *really* want to rebuild anything that uses shared libs from the  
ports tree, or anything that is a shared lib in the ports tree.   
Things that only use base system libs and don't do any dyanamic  
loading of external object code are safe to leave alone, as long as  
they don't provide shared objects.

don't find this out the hard way :-(


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