* Chuck Swiger (cswi...@mac.com) wrote: > Yes, it's not enough. > > When you upgrade the base OS to a new major version (ie, going from > 7.x to 8.x), the system libraries get bumped to a new version, but any > libraries coming from ports are still linked against the older version > of the frameworks. If you don't touch anything, backwards > compatibility for 7.x will continue to work fine, but as soon as you > start installing something new or upgrade any port, you run into the > situation where executables are linked against two different versions > of libc.so (etc) and they break. > > For all practical purposes, if you upgrade to a new major version, > then you must rebuild all installed ports. Thank you for your suggestions. I should mention that recently ``cdrecord'' is broken in 8.0. It ran pretty well in 7.2. After I updated the ports and rebuilt, it works fine. But it takes very long time to rebuild all ports. Main problem is KDE, big big ports. Okay, I shall do it, when I have time.
> Things going into -CURRENT may not be "well tested", but anything > being merged back to -STABLE ought to be. Humans make mistakes, but I > can't recall more than two or maybe three significant issues over a > decade tracking -STABLE, and these were fixed in a matter of hours. > If you do care about this level of precision, you should be building > to a test platform and then running sanity checks for whatever your > machines do before upgrading production boxes, anyway. > > Beyond that, however, you ought to consider tracking the security > branch, ie, RELENG_8_0, rather than 8-STABLE aka RELENG_8, as the > former does include recommended changes like security bugfixes, but > avoids merging in anything which has not been "well tested". I understand what you said. But I always have no time to do so. Normally, I concentrate on my work rather than tracking new patches. * Robert Huff (roberth...@rcn.com) wrote: > > Chuck Swiger writes: > And if you have the time and knowledge to not have to do this > ... you're probably not involved in the discussion to begin with. > :-) I upgrade ALL FREQUENT used ports and ALL related libraries required by them. Excluding GUI stuffs. When I want to update *ALL* these kinds of things (2-3 years once), I wget iso images, in stead of cvsup/csup. I always do this way since 5.4 without any problems excepted ``cdrecord'' as mentioned earlier. Thanks, Pongthep _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
