From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 23 23:50:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9054216A4E1 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:50:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6BBB43D45 for ; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:50:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin04-en2 [10.13.10.149]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout07/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id k7NNnwnA008670; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:50:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [17.214.14.142] (a17-214-14-142.apple.com [17.214.14.142]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin04/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id k7NNntZo025676; Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:49:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20060823234128.GM633@core.byshenk.net> References: <5B7BD83A-6316-4C20-903E-B5D66D4F2642@khera.org> <44EB5354.6070007@paladin.bulgarpress.com> <20060823234128.GM633@core.byshenk.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <303DAF81-4976-44DE-83C3-5E1655E85144@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:49:55 -0700 To: Greg Byshenk X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAA+k= X-Language-Identified: TRUE Cc: freebsd-stable Subject: Re: 5.5 to 6.1 upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 23:50:23 -0000 On Aug 23, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Greg Byshenk wrote: > As a possible point of clarification, my comments earlier (and, I > suspect similar comments of others) were not meant to imply that one > should not rebuild ports after a major upgrade, but only that one need > not do so _before_ upgrading. > > [...probably ... it worked for me ... YMMV ... if it is a critical > package, then it wouldn't hurt to rebuild it first ... usw.] Oh, certainly-- FreeBSD's COMPAT stuff will let you run binaries compiled against an older version of FreeBSD just fine for almost all circumstances. However, as soon as you try to install a new port which depends on something already installed, or upgrade anything, you pretty much really need to upgrade *everything* to be sure that you don't compile new executables which depend on a mixture of COMPAT and current libraries... -- -Chuck