on 13/01/2012 11:59 Doug Barton said the following: > On 01/13/2012 01:52, George Kontostanos wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:42 PM, George Kontostanos >> <gkontos.m...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Greetings all and my apologies for cross posting! >>> >>> There seems to be a confusion regarding the ABI change in FreeBSD 9 >>> and if this affects the usual upgrade path which includes a full port >>> rebuild. >>> >>> The relevant post is here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=28831 >>> >>> Frankly, I am also confused because I remember a relevant discussion a >>> few months ago in the lists. Traditionally a major RELEASE upgrade >>> requires a full ports rebuild, however this time there is no >>> COMPAT_FREEBSD8 in GENERIC and most upgraded systems seem to be >>> working fine. On the other hand this is stated in UPDATING: >>> >>> 20110828: >>> Bump the shared library version numbers for libraries that >>> do not use symbol versioning, have changed the ABI compared >>> to stable/8 and which shared library version was not bumped. >>> Done as part of 9.0-RELEASE cycle. >>> >>> Your input would be appreciated! > >> Hmm, anyone :) ? > > If your question is, "Do I need to rebuild my ports when doing a major > OS version upgrade?" the answer is always "Yes." > > The method described at the end of the portmaster man page is preferred, > whether you actually use portmaster to do the upgrade or not. (I.e., > good backups, delete everything, start over from scratch.)
I think that another part of the question was "why there is no COMPAT_FREEBSD8 kernel option in 9?" and I think that Volodymyr has tried to answer this part with another question. -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
