Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 20:24:09 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: 5.3 Migration Guide Message-ID: <1094430249.25711.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <200409060206.21145.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <1094426835.767.50.camel@localhost> <200409060206.21145.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 20:06, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Monday 06 September 2004 01:27, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > Howdy-- > > > > I've volunteered to rework the 5.X Early Adopters Guide into a Migration > > Guide. The focus of this document is less about discouraging unwary > > users and more about what kinds of changes users might encounter when > > they move from 4.X to 5.X. > > > > I'd like to solicit a pre-commit review on the document at: > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/pub/article.html > > Nice document! > > One thing I'm missing: > > The pthread libraries change probably requires people to recompile things > linked to it if they're migrating from 4.x - users updating from 5.x-Releases > can get away with setting up libmap.conf (maybe this is true for updating > from 4.x as well, can some threads expert comment on it?). Users should really rebuild ALL ports when upgrading from 4.X to 5.3-RELEASE. Only simple applications that only rely on libraries in compat4x will work correctly. Others, for example GTK+ apps, may link to both libc_r.so.4 and libpthread.so.1. That could spell disaster. I would also mention /usr/ports/UPDATING in this document. There are a lot of useful hints in there when it comes to upgrading things such as Perl and X (as well as the recently recent KDE 3.3). Plus, it would give this file much needed publicity. Joe -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBO64pb2iPiv4Uz4cRAttYAJ9fgoC+f4xhvptDynTkiaRSk04iXgCfbyxD AGKh6EPJ19IezIQGZRYeRaw= =9N1n -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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