From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 10 23:35:18 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F5C7106566B for ; Sun, 10 May 2009 23:35:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kientzle@freebsd.org) Received: from kientzle.com (kientzle.com [66.166.149.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39B178FC0A for ; Sun, 10 May 2009 23:35:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kientzle@freebsd.org) Received: (from root@localhost) by kientzle.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) id n4ANZGPj050350; Sun, 10 May 2009 16:35:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kientzle@freebsd.org) Received: from dark.x.kientzle.com (fw2.kientzle.com [10.123.1.2]) by kientzle.com with SMTP id b9z74zsfadqsyudschddg9m6hs; Sun, 10 May 2009 16:35:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kientzle@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <4A0764B3.1070407@freebsd.org> Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 16:35:15 -0700 From: Tim Kientzle User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090409 SeaMonkey/1.1.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Loeliger References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Feedback and Questions Updating to CURRENT 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, 10 May 2009 23:35:18 -0000 Jon Loeliger wrote: > > So, I wonder if X was hosed and also needed to be updated, etc. > In fact, shouldn't I have to re-install a bunch of ports now? > Shouldn't a pointer a the end of Chapter 24 suggest going and > redoing some packages or ports? In theory, your old software should run fine, even with a new world and kernel, although a few things may need slight reconfiguration due to changed device/driver names, etc. But it does probably make sense to update everything. /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade is your friend here: $ portupgrade -af --batch shouldn't take more than a day or two, depending on what you have installed. Caveat: If you update anything, you'll probably have to update everything. Otherwise, you'll end up with some things linked against old libc and others linked against new libc, which breaks badly. Tim