From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 1 1:28:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-27.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 042E837B422 for ; Tue, 1 May 2001 01:28:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9453366E8B; Tue, 1 May 2001 01:28:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 01:28:44 -0700 From: Kris Kennaway To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Chris Hill , Robert Myers , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.2R to 4.3R upgrade Message-ID: <20010501012844.C99418@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20010430133058.C30680@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010501012612.B99418@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="p2kqVDKq5asng8Dg" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010501012612.B99418@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Tue, May 01, 2001 at 01:26:12AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --p2kqVDKq5asng8Dg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, May 01, 2001 at 01:26:12AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 10:25:23PM -0400, Chris Hill wrote: > > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: > >=20 > > > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 01:02:30PM -0400, Robert Myers wrote: > > > > I have a few concerns/questions about upgrading from 4.2R to 4.3R > > [snip] > > > > 4. Does make world touch anything in /usr/local/*, i.e. any packag= es that > > > > aren't will still be the same as when I installed them from 4.2R > > >=20 > > > It doesn't touch anything there; most ports should be fine, except for > > > things like lsof which have their fingers in the kernel and generally > > > need to be recompiled each time you update. > >=20 > > Is there a list somewhere of exactly which ports/packages this applies > > to? Which ones "have their fingers in the kernel" and how would I know > > that? Do I just wait until something chokes when I try to use it? FWIW, > > my perspective is that of a home user who does something else for a > > living.=20 >=20 > Unfortunately not. But it's mostly applications which monitor or access system statistics like lsof does. In fact, the only applications in this class are probably those which link against libkvm; you could use ldd to see if you have any binaries linked against libkvm. Kris --p2kqVDKq5asng8Dg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.5 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE67nO7Wry0BWjoQKURAiKcAJ9abcP0frr6MYt9hPeeL8jRtCH5SQCfdR9I Q5qnq1NnH9LS6Q7FrcazUIY= =DlFu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --p2kqVDKq5asng8Dg-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message