From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 26 15:48:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 869E237C006; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:48:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA89971; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:48:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:48:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Kent Stewart Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: README.TXT and RELNOTES.TXT not updated before release tag? In-Reply-To: <397F57EC.656861CC@urx.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 26 Jul 2000, Kent Stewart wrote: > One thing I haven't seen is how or what do you do with ports. Do you > rebuild in general or what? Most ports will continue to Just Work as well as they did before (this is even true across major upgrades, if you install the appropriate compatability libraries). The exception is ports which dig their fingers into kernel data structures (e.g. via libkvm) which may need to be recompiled if things move around a bit. Kris -- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message