On Aug 23, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Greg Byshenk wrote:
As a possible point of clarification, my comments earlier (and, I
suspect similar comments of others) were not meant to imply that one
should not rebuild ports after a major upgrade, but only that one need
not do so _before_ upgrading.
[...probably ... it worked for me ... YMMV ... if it is a critical
package, then it wouldn't hurt to rebuild it first ... usw.]
Oh, certainly-- FreeBSD's COMPAT stuff will let you run binaries
compiled against an older version of FreeBSD just fine for almost all
circumstances. However, as soon as you try to install a new port
which depends on something already installed, or upgrade anything,
you pretty much really need to upgrade *everything* to be sure that
you don't compile new executables which depend on a mixture of COMPAT
and current libraries...
--
-Chuck
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