Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 06:07:46 +0200 (MET DST) From: Helge Oldach <helge.oldach@atosorigin.com> To: cswiger@mac.com (Chuck Swiger) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, freebsd@byshenk.net Subject: Re: 5.5 to 6.1 upgrade Message-ID: <200608240407.GAA27277@galaxy.hbg.de.ao-srv.com> In-Reply-To: <303DAF81-4976-44DE-83C3-5E1655E85144@mac.com> from Chuck Swiger at "Aug 23, 2006 4:49:55 pm"
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Chuck Swiger: >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... Yep. Also beware of "make delete-old" and "make delete-old-libs", and ports that build differently depending on the OS version... Helge
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