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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