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Date:      Tue, 14 Nov 2000 13:42:20 -0700 (MST)
From:      John Reynolds~ <jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com>
To:        Evan S <kaworu@sektor7.ath.cx>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports collection
Message-ID:  <14865.41900.801491.29577@hip186.ch.intel.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10011141535030.4997-100000@wintermute.sekt7>
References:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10011141535030.4997-100000@wintermute.sekt7>

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[ On Tuesday, November 14, Evan S wrote: ]
> I cvs'uppd my ports collection like the handbook and UPDATING file said
> to, will that be enough so after I make installworld and merge master my
> ports won't have to be recompiled?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Evan Sarmiento (kaworu@sekt7.org)
> http://sekt7.org/es
> 

Not necessarily. There are many "ports" which should be recompiled on "major"
transitions such as 4.1-RELEASE->4.1-STABLE, or 4.1.1-STABLE ->
4.2-STABLE. A few that come to mind are:

  libgtop
  lsof

I'm sure there are others.

CVSup'ing the ports collection merely updates you local copy of the "skeleton"
of how ports are built. It really won't do anything significant to ensure that
programs already installed (as ports before an 'installworld' is done) will
still run. Most of the time they do. Sometimes they don't. I've been running
"emacs" since I installed 4.1-RELEASE on my box and am now tracking
4.2-BETA/RC. It still runs. However, libgtop is "picky" about the version it
runs under (versus what it was compiled under). YMMV.

-Jr

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