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Date:      Sun, 09 Jul 2006 08:36:37 -0700
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@freebsd.org>
To:        lveax <lveax.m@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: after i upgraded 6.0 to 6.1, do i need to rebuild all of the ports i installed?
Message-ID:  <44B12285.905@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <576dcbc20607090832i3b0687dcs3d29de9e694cb062@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <576dcbc20607090832i3b0687dcs3d29de9e694cb062@mail.gmail.com>

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lveax wrote:
> after i upgraded from freebsd5.4 to 6.0 in 2005,i got some error when
> run a part of installed ports was installed in version 5.4,until a
> committer tell me to rebuild all of my ports.
> 
> now i want to upgrade from 6.0 to 6.1 do i need to do this?

No.  This is what a "stable" branch means -- you can upgrade from 5.x to 5.x
or from 6.x to 6.x without rebuilding everything, but when you upgrade from
FreeBSD 5.x to FreeBSD 6.x you have to rebuild.

> i have already got the source tag: RELENG_6_1 use cvsup,and i will use
> it to upgrade to 6.1,is it right?

You can do that, or you could instead use the binary upgrade script
which I posted to freebsd-stable about earlier today:
  http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-upgrade-6.0-to-6.1/

Colin Percival



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