From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 28 23:50:57 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD9F9106566B for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:50:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: from mail5out.barnet.com.au (mail5.barnet.com.au [202.83.178.78]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9114C8FC14 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:50:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from edwin@mavetju.org) Received: by mail5out.barnet.com.au (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 33C2122189EA; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:50:56 +1100 (EST) X-Viruscan-Id: <47C748DF000090616E61C1@BarNet> Received: from mail5auth.barnet.com.au (mail5.barnet.com.au [202.83.178.78]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mail5auth.barnet.com.au", Issuer "*.barnet.com.au" (verified OK)) by mail5.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 890F321B1EB7; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:50:55 +1100 (EST) Received: from k7.mavetju (k7.mavetju.org [10.251.1.18]) by mail5auth.barnet.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CE6E2218A64; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:50:53 +1100 (EST) Received: by k7.mavetju (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2138321A; Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:50:53 +1100 (EST) Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:50:53 +1100 From: Edwin Groothuis To: Marko Lerota Message-ID: <20080228235053.GA2964@k7.mavetju> Mail-Followup-To: Edwin Groothuis , Marko Lerota , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <867igo3cih.fsf@zid.claresco.hr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <867igo3cih.fsf@zid.claresco.hr> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 23:50:58 -0000 On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:08:22AM +0100, Marko Lerota wrote: > In http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html says > > Updating Existing Systems > > > An upgrade of any existing system to FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE constitutes > > a major version upgrade, so no matter which method you use to update > > an older system you should reinstall any ports you have installed on Should, not must. Use misc/compat6x if you don't want to do this, but that doesn't work for things which look in the kernel (sysutils/lsof for example) Also, it doesn't say that you don't need to upgrade your ports, you need to reinstall them. Problem resolved by carefully reading. Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/