From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 22 19:23:05 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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 C9AF016A4DE for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:23:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83AFD43D46 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:23:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin07-en2 [10.13.10.152]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout07/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id k7MJN40n012471; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:23:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [17.214.14.142] (a17-214-14-142.apple.com [17.214.14.142]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin07/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id k7MJN13L002898; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:23:03 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <44EB5354.6070007@paladin.bulgarpress.com> References: <5B7BD83A-6316-4C20-903E-B5D66D4F2642@khera.org> <44EB5354.6070007@paladin.bulgarpress.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:23:00 -0700 To: "Todorov @ Paladin" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAA+k= X-Language-Identified: TRUE Cc: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: 5.5 to 6.1 upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:23:05 -0000 On Aug 22, 2006, at 11:56 AM, Todorov @ Paladin wrote: [ ... ] > How to find which is dynamically using libs and which application > is not? You can use ldd. In practice, however, pretty much all software nowadays depends on shared libraries, so it's reasonable to do a "pkg_delete -a" after upgrading to a new major version of FreeBSD, and then reinstall all of the ports you use once you've finished upgrading. Run "pkg_info" before the upgrade and keep track of this output to help you remember what ports you've got installed... -- -Chuck