From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 7 19:28:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3523716A4CE; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 19:28:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [168.103.84.182]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D182743D2D; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 19:28:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i87JRl7b036018; Tue, 7 Sep 2004 13:27:48 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 13:28:15 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20040907.132815.51857293.imp@bsdimp.com> To: michaelnottebrock@gmx.net From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <200409060206.21145.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> References: <1094426835.767.50.camel@localhost> <200409060206.21145.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> X-Mailer: Mew version 3.3 on Emacs 21.3 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: bmah@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: 5.3 Migration Guide X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 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: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 19:28:27 -0000 In message: <200409060206.21145.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> Michael Nottebrock writes: : On Monday 06 September 2004 01:27, Bruce A. Mah wrote: : > Howdy-- : > : > I've volunteered to rework the 5.X Early Adopters Guide into a Migration : > Guide. The focus of this document is less about discouraging unwary : > users and more about what kinds of changes users might encounter when : > they move from 4.X to 5.X. : > : > I'd like to solicit a pre-commit review on the document at: : > : > http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/pub/article.html : : Nice document! : : One thing I'm missing: : : The pthread libraries change probably requires people to recompile things : linked to it if they're migrating from 4.x - users updating from 5.x-Releases : can get away with setting up libmap.conf (maybe this is true for updating : from 4.x as well, can some threads expert comment on it?). You should recompile everything as part of this upgrade. You can still use libc_r on -current (I have binaries I'm still using and haven't upgraded). You should likely do so, as well as recompile C++ programs. Warner