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Subject: Re: Disadvantages of running software through compat5x?
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On Monday 12 December 2005 10:55, Ashley Moran wrote:
> I was going to reinstall it with 6.0 and I just wondered if there was any
> reason why you shouldn't run a production server on the compat5x port for
> any length of time.  I can't afford the downtime to remove all the ports
> and re-install them.

compat5x  provides 5.x libraries for packages that are built against FreeBSD 
5.x  If you upgraded from 5.x, you will still have those libraries left 
behind, and as far as I can see they take priority over the  compat5x  
copies. If security patches are applied to compat5x,  you may have to track 
down the insecure libraries manually, or update packages.

If you later update or add packages, you may run into library conflicts.