Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 15:20:52 -0400 From: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0 release date and stability Message-ID: <57B3E41C-8880-4ED4-B33C-321DE5ED9AD1@khera.org> In-Reply-To: <20051019231046.1136a1ea.dick@nagual.st> References: <200510152346.RAA20742@lariat.net> <disfuq$iag$1@sea.gmane.org> <20051016135752.6bcc6874.dick@nagual.st> <AB7EBC6B-6036-4CA9-918C-1FD553E019AD@khera.org> <20051019231046.1136a1ea.dick@nagual.st>
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On Oct 19, 2005, at 5:10 PM, dick hoogendijk wrote: > Wat is the best way to get the cleanest FreeBSD-6.x system without > installing from scratch? Recompile each port? Or use the > COMPAT_FREEBSD5 layer? > > this is a different question than you asked before... the COMPAT_FREEBSD5 will allow your existing binaries to continue to run. you can leave this on while you run "portupgrade -f -a" to recompile all your ports, then you can take it out... and remove all the compat libraries sitting around if you care to do so. personally, I don't see the point of doing that. just let your ports naturally get replaced as they are upgraded due to version bumps and such.
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