From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 14 13:39:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from peak.mountin.net (peak.mountin.net [207.227.119.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFD6337B479 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 13:39:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by peak.mountin.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA21458; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:39:07 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jeff-ml@mountin.net) Received: from dial-110.max1.wa.cyberlynk.net(207.227.118.110) by peak.mountin.net via smap (V1.3) id sma021455; Tue Nov 14 15:38:42 2000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.20001114152339.00b96510@207.227.119.2> X-Sender: jeff-ml@207.227.119.2 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3 Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 15:38:19 -0600 To: Evan S From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" Subject: Re: ports collection Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 03:35 PM 11/14/00 -0500, Evan S wrote: >I cvs'uppd my ports collection like the handbook and UPDATING file said >to, will that be enough so after I make installworld and merge master my >ports won't have to be recompiled? > >Thanks, > >Evan Sarmiento (kaworu@sekt7.org) >http://sekt7.org/es While I am busy griping here is another example. This question more appropriate to -ports, but at least marginally concerns -stable. I'm not saying this doesn't belong here, but there have far too many ports specific questions on this list. Myself and others have pointed this out. In many cases the questions were answered very recently on -ports. If you use ports you should be reading -ports. When in doubt re-compile them. If you track -cvs-all (like you are *supposed* to), then re-compile them only when you changes to libraries. The pending version bump is by far the best example, but re-doing the ports you install is a good blanket rule when a commit has "lib" in it. Call it the "when in doubt" rule. ;) As for how, check the archives for -stable and -ports. ;) Jeff Mountin - jeff@mountin.net Systems/Network Administrator FreeBSD - the power to serve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message