From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 22 02:12:38 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E6D716A4DD for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:12:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dsyphers@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout4.cac.washington.edu (mxout4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A37FD43D45 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:12:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dsyphers@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.139]) by mxout4.cac.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.03) with ESMTP id k7M2CbYJ020196 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:12:37 -0700 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.1.7] (c-24-19-52-201.hsd1.mn.comcast.net [24.19.52.201]) (authenticated authid=dsyphers) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.7+UW06.06/8.13.7+UW06.03) with ESMTP id k7M2CaNL021776 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:12:37 -0700 From: David Syphers To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:14:49 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <023A30EB-733E-4D31-A55D-3B181E8FCA41@khera.org> In-Reply-To: <023A30EB-733E-4D31-A55D-3B181E8FCA41@khera.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200608211914.49548.dsyphers@u.washington.edu> X-PMX-Version: 5.2.0.264296, Antispam-Engine: 2.4.0.264935, Antispam-Data: 2006.8.21.185442 X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CD 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CTYPE_CHARSET_QUOTED 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Subject: Re: 5.5 to 6.1 upgrade X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 02:12:38 -0000 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 b) do I need to upgrade all existing ports (way out of date) before 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