Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 16:49:55 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Greg Byshenk <freebsd@byshenk.net> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 5.5 to 6.1 upgrade Message-ID: <303DAF81-4976-44DE-83C3-5E1655E85144@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <20060823234128.GM633@core.byshenk.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1060823010930.9072A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> <5B7BD83A-6316-4C20-903E-B5D66D4F2642@khera.org> <44EB5354.6070007@paladin.bulgarpress.com> <E9B1EF44-7E2D-4FD7-B065-CC07596B5DB5@mac.com> <20060823234128.GM633@core.byshenk.net>
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On Aug 23, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Greg Byshenk wrote: > As a possible point of clarification, my comments earlier (and, I > suspect similar comments of others) were not meant to imply that one > should not rebuild ports after a major upgrade, but only that one need > not do so _before_ upgrading. > > [...probably ... it worked for me ... YMMV ... if it is a critical > package, then it wouldn't hurt to rebuild it first ... usw.] Oh, certainly-- FreeBSD's COMPAT stuff will let you run binaries compiled against an older version of FreeBSD just fine for almost all circumstances. However, as soon as you try to install a new port which depends on something already installed, or upgrade anything, you pretty much really need to upgrade *everything* to be sure that you don't compile new executables which depend on a mixture of COMPAT and current libraries... -- -Chuck
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