Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 01:15:50 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>, Marko Lerota <mlerota@iskon.hr>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements Message-ID: <47C74EB6.9040801@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20080229000714.GB2964@k7.mavetju> References: <867igo3cih.fsf@zid.claresco.hr> <20080228235053.GA2964@k7.mavetju> <47C74BD3.6020405@FreeBSD.org> <20080229000714.GB2964@k7.mavetju>
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Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 01:03:31AM +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> Edwin Groothuis wrote: >>> On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:08:22AM +0100, Marko Lerota wrote: >>>> In http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html says >>>> >>>> Updating Existing Systems >>>> >>>>> An upgrade of any existing system to FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE constitutes >>>>> a major version upgrade, so no matter which method you use to update >>>>> an older system you should reinstall any ports you have installed on >>> Should, not must. Use misc/compat6x if you don't want to do this, >>> but that doesn't work for things which look in the kernel (sysutils/lsof >>> for example) >> No: must, not should. >> >> If you don't do this, then when you update e.g. only some of the gnome >> libraries without recompiling all of gnome, then your gnome binaries >> will have libraries linked to libc.so.6 and libc.so.7, and to >> libkse.so.2 as well as libthr.so.3, and this is a guaranteed runtime >> crash because these are mutually inconsistent sets of libraries. > > He wanted independance of the base OS and the installed software. > He didn't want to upgrade his software because of software version > incompatibilies. > > That was the scenario where this advice was given on. OK, it is true that if users do not plan to upgrade self-contained subsets of their installed 6.x software, then those subsets will continue to function indefinitely using the compat6x libraries. Kris
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