Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:14:49 -0700 From: David Syphers <dsyphers@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.5 to 6.1 upgrade Message-ID: <200608211914.49548.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <023A30EB-733E-4D31-A55D-3B181E8FCA41@khera.org> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1060822020407.18399H-100000@gaia.nimnet.asn.au> <023A30EB-733E-4D31-A55D-3B181E8FCA41@khera.org>
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On Monday 21 August 2006 13:56, Vivek Khera wrote: > On Aug 21, 2006, at 12:19 PM, Ian Smith wrote: > > b) do I need to upgrade all existing ports (way out of date) before > > the > > source upgrade, or can I be confident of doing that from 6.1 (-R or > > -S)? > > You really want to rebuild all your ports across major version > changes. If not, over time as you rebuild certain libraries they > will be pulling in multiple versions of other shared libs which may > be linked to other versions of base system libs and could conflict > with each other. To be clear: yes, you want to rebuild your ports, but only _after_ the upgrade. Before won't help. -David -- "To get out of the Metaphysical Void, you either have to grasp the meaning of the universe or roll doubles twice." -Cecil Adams
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