Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:04:22 -0500 From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> To: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports and updating 6.2-STABLE to 7.0-PRERELEASE Message-ID: <471929E6.3050505@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <20071019215215.GA76786@owl.midgard.homeip.net> References: <47191A24.8010309@polands.org> <20071019215215.GA76786@owl.midgard.homeip.net>
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Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:57:08PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I've just updated my system to 7.0-PRERELEASE from 6.2-STABLE on i386 and I >> was wondering what the recommendation is for ports. Specifically, is it >> necessary to rebuild all ports? >> >> So far, I haven't rebuilt any ports and haven't had any problems... > > It is not strictly necessary to rebuild all ports, but I would recommend it > and if you start to install any new ports then you should rebuild all the > old ones first. > > Having some ports linked against 6.x libraries while some are linked > against 7.x libraries can very easily lead to problems. > (If one of your old ports (linked against 6.x libraries) provides some > library which is used by one of the new ports (using 7.x libraries) then the > new port can end up using two version of the same system library - both the > 6.x version and the 7.x version. This will almost certainly not work > correctly.) > > Thank you for the info, I think I'll rebuild my ports. I imagine I could then use # portsclean --libclean to get rid of those 6.x libraries and have a nice *clean* system. -- Regards, Doug
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