From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 12 14:43:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DEEF16A402 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 14:43:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eculp@bafirst.com) Received: from bafirst.com (72-12-2-214.wan.networktel.net [72.12.2.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F7EF43D48 for ; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 14:43:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from eculp@bafirst.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 80) by bafirst.com with local; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 08:43:09 -0600 id 00095807.4414337D.000044B2 Received: from dsl-201-144-92-194.prod-infinitum.com.mx (dsl-201-144-92-194.prod-infinitum.com.mx [201.144.92.194]) by mail.bafirst.com (Horde MIME library) with HTTP; Sun, 12 Mar 2006 08:43:09 -0600 Message-ID: <20060312084309.wpgm6w783oogs0gc@mail.bafirst.com> Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 08:43:09 -0600 From: eculp@bafirst.com To: Darren Pilgrim References: <20060311213529.epb13ogpggk00ws0@mail.bafirst.com> <44139CC7.40006@bitfreak.org> In-Reply-To: <44139CC7.40006@bitfreak.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 4.1-cvs Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gotchas to Downgrade from 7.0-CURRENTto FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 14:43:10 -0000 Quoting Darren Pilgrim : > eculp@bafirst.com wrote: > > I've lost track a bit of the differences between current and > > 6.1-prerelease. I don't remember anything major that would cause > > problems. Does anyone know of a potential gotcha or have suggestions > > the smooth the pathe or has done this since the freeze? > > You'll want to wipe out all of the non-config files in /etc, use > mergemaster -i to install a fresh /etc and import your saved > configuration. > > > The machine that I am going to downgrade is my wife's and I don't really > > want to recompile roughly 540 ports that are installed > > There are API-incompatible differences between -CURRENT and RELENG_6, > so you'll probably need to recompile all those ports anyway. Thanks, Darren. I was pretty sure that was the case. I'm going to give linux-firefox a try and if it works, I'll try to keep her happy with that until the linuxpluginwrapper problem is solved. I really see little difference between the two except for the plugin issue. Thanks again, ed