Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:56:20 +0300 From: "Todorov @ Paladin" <todorov@paladin.bulgarpress.com> To: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> Cc: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 5.5 to 6.1 upgrade Message-ID: <44EB5354.6070007@paladin.bulgarpress.com> In-Reply-To: <5B7BD83A-6316-4C20-903E-B5D66D4F2642@khera.org> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1060823010930.9072A-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> <5B7BD83A-6316-4C20-903E-B5D66D4F2642@khera.org>
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Vivek Khera написа: > > On Aug 22, 2006, at 11:37 AM, Ian Smith wrote: > >>> It shouldn't be necessary to rebuild ports before the upgrade. If >>> there is something running that is critical, you might want to upgrade >> [ ... ] >> Good to confirm. I haven't so many ports installed that I couldn't >> start from scratch if it all fell over, so I can play with ports and >> packages till I finally learn how to use all the tools effectively. > > you *really* want to rebuild anything that uses shared libs from the > ports tree, or anything that is a shared lib in the ports tree. Things > that only use base system libs and don't do any dyanamic loading of > external object code are safe to leave alone, as long as they don't > provide shared objects. > > don't find this out the hard way :-( > How to find which is dynamically using libs and which application is not? This is something I was wondering before... Thank you in advance.
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