Lowell Gilbert wrote at 16:35 -0500 on Nov 13, 2008: > John Hein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So my question is: is this documented and/or widely known? A full > > portupgrade wouldn't help if you were up to date on libtool in 6.x > > before updating (unless portupgrade -f is used). > > But you've *always* needed to rebuild *all* your ports when system > libraries got a version bump. Symbol versioning may make this less of > an issue in the future, but even then I'll be expecting to do it when I > make major version jumps.
I often don't rebuild everything right away and live with the compat libs for a while. That has worked fine in the past (probably had some hiccups that I've long since forgotten about). But I understand why the official position is to rebuild everything. > > Would it be worth documenting this in UPDATING (if I haven't > > missed it somewhere)? > > It's in the release notes for every (I think) release. Other places > might make sense also, I guess... I don't see it at the moment (looking at 6.3's relnotes), but I didn't look too hard. Thanks for the answers. _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
