Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:27:23 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0 release date and stability Message-ID: <20051020202723.GA25790@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <57B3E41C-8880-4ED4-B33C-321DE5ED9AD1@khera.org> References: <200510152346.RAA20742@lariat.net> <disfuq$iag$1@sea.gmane.org> <20051016135752.6bcc6874.dick@nagual.st> <AB7EBC6B-6036-4CA9-918C-1FD553E019AD@khera.org> <20051019231046.1136a1ea.dick@nagual.st> <57B3E41C-8880-4ED4-B33C-321DE5ED9AD1@khera.org>
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--C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 03:20:52PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: >=20 > On Oct 19, 2005, at 5:10 PM, dick hoogendijk wrote: >=20 > >Wat is the best way to get the cleanest FreeBSD-6.x system without > >installing from scratch? Recompile each port? Or use the > >COMPAT_FREEBSD5 layer? > > > > >=20 > this is a different question than you asked before... the =20 > COMPAT_FREEBSD5 will allow your existing binaries to continue to =20 > run. you can leave this on while you run "portupgrade -f -a" to =20 > recompile all your ports, then you can take it out... and remove all =20 > the compat libraries sitting around if you care to do so. >=20 > personally, I don't see the point of doing that. just let your ports =20 > naturally get replaced as they are upgraded due to version bumps and =20 > such. This isn't enough, because you'll still get new 6.0 ports compiled against old 5.x libraries and the situation I detailed in my previous email. If you want to use continue to ports after upgrading to a new major release, you *must* first recompile your old ports to avoid those problems. Kris --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDV/2rWry0BWjoQKURAga+AJ9AuPyh+ZMxJn9RH3O69RlUhFIHUwCgsrNP wP+KJxPJBidISZ1N/m885Xw= =Ss6A -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc--
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