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From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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Subject: Re: Do you need to rebuild ports after 7-Current upgrade?
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On Tuesday 18 September 2007 22:24:47 Philip M. Gollucci wrote:
> Brent Jones wrote:
> > Good morning -
> >
> > After a 6.2 to 7-Current FreeBSD upgrade, do you need to rebuild your
> > ports?
>
> If you have all the compat*x libraries installed you might not need to.
> But if you don't, things will use the old libraries and not the new ones
> in 7.
>
> I would suggest you do.

I would suggest if you're not sure on staying with -current, that you don't. 
Once you're confident you're staying with -current cause your hardware 
responds well, there's always time to upgrade. If your hardware doesn't 
respond well going back is a whole lot easier.

-- 
Mel