Thanks a lot.
On 1/31/06, Charles Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 31, 2006, at 3:28 PM, Michael S wrote: > > I have a question related to upgrading my machine from 5.3 to 6.0. > > I am convinced I need to upgrade it, and the base system upgrade > > procedure is pretty much clear to me. However I am somewhat not clear > > about 3rd party software. Since all the programs are 5.X binaries, do > > I need to recompile/reinstall all of them? Or they can run fine under > > COMPAT_FREEBSD5? > > So long as the FreeBSD 5 binary compatibility option is present, all > of your existing binaries will run just fine under FreeBSD 6. > However, anything which you can rebuild or reinstall should be > upgraded (perhaps via "portupgrade -af"?) as soon as convenient, to > avoid mixing two versions of the shared libraries together. > > -- > -Chuck > > _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
