Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:47:46 +0300 From: "Odhiambo Washington" <odhiambo@gmail.com> To: "Olivier Mueller" <om-lists-bsd@omx.ch> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrade 7.0 -> 7.1 : portupgrade -af required? Message-ID: <991123400901150747u8acde88sf5709cb7b22dd89b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1232032068.5374.74.camel@frosh> References: <1232032068.5374.74.camel@frosh>
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Olivier Mueller <om-lists-bsd@omx.ch>wrote: > 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? No. Not necessary for point upgrades. > > 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? Yes. That document is quite clear. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ "Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." --Henry Ford
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