From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 21 03:13:55 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 E415B16A4CE for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 03:13:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from out01.grupos.com.br (out01.grupos.com.br [200.203.183.77]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 674AF43D31 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 03:13:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcus@corp.grupos.com.br) Received: from corp.grupos.com.br (unknown [150.162.166.55]) by out01.grupos.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80E853F7C for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:13:53 -0300 (BRT) Received: from corp.grupos.com.br (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by corp.grupos.com.br (Postfix) with SMTP id 0C07720A78 for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:13:53 -0300 (BRT) Received: from [192.168.1.5] (200-193-076-213.fnsce7006.dsl.brasiltelecom.net.br [200.193.76.213]) by corp.grupos.com.br (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FCE220A0F for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:13:52 -0300 (BRT) Message-ID: <414F9C6D.9020709@corp.grupos.com.br> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 00:13:49 -0300 From: Marcus Grando User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20040920211231.89904.qmail@web53808.mail.yahoo.com> <200409201753.38308.so14k@so14k.com> In-Reply-To: <200409201753.38308.so14k@so14k.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 03:13:56 -0000 Hi, Here's a preview... FreeBSD 5.3-BETA Migration Guide: http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/pub/article.html Regards Brad Davis wrote: > 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 > -- Marcus Grando Grupos Internet S/A marcus(at)corp.grupos.com.br