Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 03:03:39 +0400 From: Boris Samorodov <bsam@ipt.ru> To: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports and updating 6.2-STABLE to 7.0-PRERELEASE Message-ID: <89346068@ipt.ru> In-Reply-To: <471929E6.3050505@polands.org> (Doug Poland's message of "Fri\, 19 Oct 2007 17\:04\:22 -0500") References: <47191A24.8010309@polands.org> <20071019215215.GA76786@owl.midgard.homeip.net> <471929E6.3050505@polands.org>
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On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:04:22 -0500 Doug Poland wrote: > Erik Trulsson wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:57:08PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I've just updated my system to 7.0-PRERELEASE from 6.2-STABLE on > >> i386 and I was wondering what the recommendation is for ports. > >> Specifically, is it necessary to rebuild all ports? > >> > >> So far, I haven't rebuilt any ports and haven't had any problems... > > > > It is not strictly necessary to rebuild all ports, but I would recommend it > > and if you start to install any new ports then you should rebuild all the > > old ones first. > > > > Having some ports linked against 6.x libraries while some are linked > > against 7.x libraries can very easily lead to problems. > > (If one of your old ports (linked against 6.x libraries) provides some > > library which is used by one of the new ports (using 7.x libraries) then the > > new port can end up using two version of the same system library - both the > > 6.x version and the 7.x version. This will almost certainly not work > > correctly.) > > > Thank you for the info, I think I'll rebuild my ports. I imagine I > could then use > # portsclean --libclean Shouldn't it remove only libraries from ports? > to get rid of those 6.x libraries and have a nice *clean* system. If you want to get a clean system and to get rid of 6.x libraries from base system you may be interested in "make delete-old[-libs|-dirs]" at /usr/src. More info at /usr/src/UPDATING and /usr/src/Makefile. WBR -- bsam
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