From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 30 19:26:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.monochrome.org (b4.ebbed1.client.atlantech.net [209.190.235.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 274E737B423 for ; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 19:26:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Received: from localhost (faro [192.168.1.7]) by mail.monochrome.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA47857; Mon, 30 Apr 2001 22:25:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from chris@monochrome.org) Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2001 22:25:23 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Hill X-Sender: chris@localhost To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Robert Myers , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2R to 4.3R upgrade In-Reply-To: <20010430133058.C30680@xor.obsecurity.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:02:30PM -0400, Robert Myers wrote: > > I have a few concerns/questions about upgrading from 4.2R to 4.3R [snip] > > 4. Does make world touch anything in /usr/local/*, i.e. any packages that > > aren't will still be the same as when I installed them from 4.2R > > It doesn't touch anything there; most ports should be fine, except for > things like lsof which have their fingers in the kernel and generally > need to be recompiled each time you update. Is there a list somewhere of exactly which ports/packages this applies to? Which ones "have their fingers in the kernel" and how would I know that? Do I just wait until something chokes when I try to use it? FWIW, my perspective is that of a home user who does something else for a living. TIA... -- Chris Hill chris@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging <-> ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message