From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 8 10:22:51 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 697861065672 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:22:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mueller6724@bellsouth.net) Received: from fmailhost05.isp.att.net (fmailhost05.isp.att.net [204.127.217.105]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 583698FC12 for ; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:22:51 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:12:48 +0000 (GMT) X-Comment: Sending client does not conform to RFC822 minimum requirements X-Comment: Date has been added by Maillennium Received: from localhost (adsl-68-210-187-124.sdf.bellsouth.net[68.210.187.124]) by isp.att.net (frfwmhc05) with SMTP id <20110908101248H05001nmlme>; Thu, 8 Sep 2011 10:12:48 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [68.210.187.124] From: "Thomas Mueller" Cc: Kostik Belousov Subject: Re: Shared libraries version bump? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:22:51 -0000 From: Kostik Belousov > The bump was done for BETA2, see r225227, done on 2011-08-28. > The bump has much less scope since we did the ABI analysis and > only bumped the libraries which interfaces changed in incompatible > way and which were not yet bumped. See the referenced commit for > the libraries list. > To be absolutely safe, you indeed need to rebuild all ports. Practically, > the damage done by bump is very limited and most people can get away > without rebuild if you already tracked HEAD. > I would mostly worry about libpcap. Thanks for information. I would not have known where to look for the commits, or I would have found it and not have had to ask this question. I think I'll rebuild all ports, and more, maybe I should make and keep packages in case I can't update to BETA3 in place. For now I will keep the BETA1 installation, use the ports tree from there, and portsnap fetch update instead of installing the ports from BETA2. I will delete and redo the partitions where I have the nonworking installation of NetBSD-current and install FreeBSD 9.0 BETA2 there, but keep the already existing /home partition. I had been daily browsing ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases, so I found BETA2 on Sep 2. I didn't even know which emailing list to use for beta releases, after much browsing found freebsd-current to be the best fit. Tom