On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:54:55 +0100 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > portupgrade -faP requests to reinstall everything from precompiled > packages. It will only fall back to compiling them locally if the > package is unavailable (e.g. for legal reasons). > > Second, the reason for this requirement is explained in the > announcement. In fact, it has *always* been required to recompile ports > when moving to a new major release of FreeBSD, for guaranteed correct > operation when some of the ports are updated later on.
Er... Can't one run old binaries after installing one or more of usr/ports/misc/compat-[3456]x -- that has not changed, has it? I agree that people *should* recompile but it is not always possible or convenient and in such cases the compat libraries are a good crutch. In face one strong point of freebsd has been (or was) backward compatibility. > This is not FreeBSD-specific advice. It is true on any operating system > when the underlying set of libraries changes in an incompatible way. > However, on FreeBSD this *only* happens betweeen version branches. Almost all commercial OSes provide some degree of backward compatibility; some do much better (such as IBM & SGI). _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
