Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 01:28:44 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: Chris Hill <chris@monochrome.org>, Robert Myers <ccrider@whiterose.net>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2R to 4.3R upgrade Message-ID: <20010501012844.C99418@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20010501012612.B99418@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Tue, May 01, 2001 at 01:26:12AM -0700 References: <20010430133058.C30680@xor.obsecurity.org> <Pine.BSF.3.96.1010430221944.34240B-100000@localhost> <20010501012612.B99418@xor.obsecurity.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 01:26:12AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:25:23PM -0400, Chris Hill wrote: > > 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. > > Unfortunately not. But it's mostly applications which monitor or access system statistics like lsof does. In fact, the only applications in this class are probably those which link against libkvm; you could use ldd to see if you have any binaries linked against libkvm. Kris [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE67nO7Wry0BWjoQKURAiKcAJ9abcP0frr6MYt9hPeeL8jRtCH5SQCfdR9I Q5qnq1NnH9LS6Q7FrcazUIY= =DlFu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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