From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 1 20:41:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-26-235-186.mmcable.com [65.26.235.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D0C437B496 for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 20:41:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwm@mired.org) Received: (qmail 94535 invoked by uid 100); 2 May 2001 03:41:10 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15087.33238.644395.575528@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 22:41:10 -0500 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: questions@freebsd.org, chris@monochrome.org Subject: Re: 4.2R to 4.3R upgrade In-Reply-To: <65329366@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway 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. 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