Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 16:07:48 +0100 From: Olivier Mueller <om-lists-bsd@omx.ch> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: upgrade 7.0 -> 7.1 : portupgrade -af required? Message-ID: <1232032068.5374.74.camel@frosh>
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Hello, After an upgrade from FreeBSD 7.0 to 7.1 (with freebsd-update in my case), is it required to recompile all ports (portupgrade -af) like specified in some docs/blog-entries, or is it not *really* necessary? What are you doing on your production systems? Having to upgrade several servers (>15), it's quite important for me to estimate the time required for the operation... I did the upgrade on a test server here, and all ports still seems to work (apache, php, mysql, etc.) so I guess the answer is no, but I'd like to be sure before upgrading some important servers :-) According to: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.1R/announce.html "Users of earlier FreeBSD releases (FreeBSD 6.x) can also use freebsd-update to upgrade to FreeBSD 7.1, but will be prompted to rebuild all third-party applications (e.g., anything installed from the ports tree) after the second invocation of "freebsd-update install", in order to handle differences in the system libraries between FreeBSD 6.x and FreeBSD 7.x." It would be necessary only for major upgrades (6.x -> 7.x). Right? thanks & regards, Olivier
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