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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Sat, 03 Dec 2011 16:53:24 +0100, Filippo Moretti wrote:
> They seem to work anyway.I was unable to upgrade many ports due to 
> failure to patch properly but all the application I have still work.
> I do agree they should be re-installed

You can always use the "fallback method" of using
the compatibility layers of FreeBSD n for n-1. This
refers to the compat-* ports and the COMPAT_* kernel
configuration items.

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Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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