Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2006 08:43:09 -0600 From: eculp@bafirst.com To: Darren Pilgrim <darren.pilgrim@bitfreak.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Gotchas to Downgrade from 7.0-CURRENTto FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE Message-ID: <20060312084309.wpgm6w783oogs0gc@mail.bafirst.com> In-Reply-To: <44139CC7.40006@bitfreak.org> References: <20060311213529.epb13ogpggk00ws0@mail.bafirst.com> <44139CC7.40006@bitfreak.org>
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Quoting Darren Pilgrim <darren.pilgrim@bitfreak.org>: > 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
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