From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 21 13:20:00 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC2D016A4CE for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:20:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpout-2.iphouse.net (smtpout-2.iphouse.net [216.250.188.191]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CEB543D5A for ; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:20:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from veldy@veldy.net) Received: from veldy.net (fuggle.veldy.net [209.240.64.129]) by smtpout-2.iphouse.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87BF42B11F3; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:19:59 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (localhost.veldy.net [127.0.0.1]) by veldy.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 155F629; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:19:59 -0500 (CDT) Received: from veldy.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (fuggle.veldy.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 11641-01; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:19:55 -0500 (CDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (fuggle.veldy.net [192.168.1.3]) by veldy.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE28A26; Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:19:54 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <41502A69.4020807@veldy.net> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:19:37 -0500 From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gregor Mosheh References: <20040920211231.89904.qmail@web53808.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040920211231.89904.qmail@web53808.mail.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig500583A51F048DB5A0A96132" X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at veldy.net cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrade questions 4.10 -> 5-stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 13:20:01 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig500583A51F048DB5A0A96132 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gregor Mosheh wrote: >I thought I'd ask here... > >I'm currently running FreeBSD 4.10, and would like to >upgrade to a 5.x because of the superior jail support. > >Which version would you recommend for someone who's >really interested in jail support, but doesn't like to >live dangerously? Of my hardware, the only item of >note is that I use FreeBSD 4.10's ehci driver for USB >2.0 devices. > >One of the notes in /usr/src/UPDATING was that GCC had >been upgraded from my current 2.95 to 3.4 and there >are known compatibility problems with the ABI (what's >an ABI? the .so's?) Will this upgrade force me to >recompile all of my existing C++ stuff, e.g. Postgres >and PostGIS, or will my existing binaries continue to >run? > > > I would wait until well after 5.3-RELEASE. There are several bugs in 5.3 that still exist and I don't expect to see them all worked out before the release. There is a USB bug that causes a sig 12 during printing to a USB printer under certain circumstances. EHCI used to force reboots on my machine, but it has been awhile since I checked it out. There are simply a lot of reports of lockups and reboots that would keep me wary for a long time to come [if I had an aversity to risk as you indicate]. Tom Veldhouse --------------enig500583A51F048DB5A0A96132 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFBUCpsARgTFXYf0wARAuQhAKCO7kU1lvn0VHxFAqA1p4J5FBwZqwCgwmjY 9kMQR8Ox7p5jzYGAZzjS6qk= =SvI2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig500583A51F048DB5A0A96132--