Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 22:41:10 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, chris@monochrome.org Subject: Re: 4.2R to 4.3R upgrade Message-ID: <15087.33238.644395.575528@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <65329366@toto.iv>
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Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> types: > > > Is there a list somewhere of exactly which ports/packages this applies > > > to? Which ones "have their fingers in the kernel" and how would I know > > > that? Do I just wait until something chokes when I try to use it? FWIW, > > > my perspective is that of a home user who does something else for a > > > living. > > Unfortunately not. > But it's mostly applications which monitor or access system statistics > like lsof does. In fact, the only applications in this class are > probably those which link against libkvm; you could use ldd to see if > you have any binaries linked against libkvm. Mostly, but not completely. I've been bitten by cdrecord more than once. It's use of libcam may be a similar flag. There are a lot of reasons for upgrading ports across a release. A port being broken is just the most pressing one. You should really upgrade any port that involves compiling code, or that has been updated. That this process is a pain is a known problem, and there are a number of people working on automating the process. For instance, "pgk_version -c" examines the installed packages and the ports tree, and produces a script to update all the packages that have been updated. The script needs to be used with some care, though. Replacing a binary that's currently in use might not be the best thing in the world to do. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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