Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports

2012-01-14 Thread George Kontostanos
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Matthew Seaman < > m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > >> On 13/01/2012 22:57, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> > But if the appropriate misc/compatX port is installed, then those >> libraries do >> > actually ex

Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports

2012-01-14 Thread Kevin Oberman
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 12:46 AM, Matthew Seaman < m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > On 13/01/2012 22:57, Andriy Gapon wrote: > > But if the appropriate misc/compatX port is installed, then those > libraries do > > actually exist and the system should be fully usable... Modulo the compat >

Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports

2012-01-14 Thread Henri Hennebert
On 01/14/2012 11:37, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 11:29:00AM +0100, Henri Hennebert wrote: >> On 01/14/2012 09:46, Matthew Seaman wrote: >>> On 13/01/2012 22:57, Andriy Gapon wrote: But if the appropriate misc/compatX port is installed, then those libraries do actually

Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports

2012-01-14 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Jan 14, 2012 at 11:29:00AM +0100, Henri Hennebert wrote: > On 01/14/2012 09:46, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 13/01/2012 22:57, Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> But if the appropriate misc/compatX port is installed, then > >> those libraries do actually exist and the system should be fully > >> usa

Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports

2012-01-14 Thread Henri Hennebert
On 01/14/2012 09:46, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 13/01/2012 22:57, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> But if the appropriate misc/compatX port is installed, then >> those libraries do actually exist and the system should be fully >> usable... Modulo the compat libraries not working with the new >> kernel as K

Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports

2012-01-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 13/01/2012 22:57, Andriy Gapon wrote: > But if the appropriate misc/compatX port is installed, then those libraries do > actually exist and the system should be fully usable... Modulo the compat > libraries not working with the new kernel as Kostik has pointed out. As soon as you update or inst

Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports

2012-01-13 Thread Andriy Gapon
Just for the sake of this conversation... on 14/01/2012 00:35 Doug Barton said the following: > If you have a sufficiently small number of ports, sure it's possible > that you *might* not have to recompile. However if you're talking about > a desktop system with X I guarantee you that if you clea

Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports

2012-01-13 Thread Doug Barton
On 01/13/2012 03:56, George Kontostanos wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> 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 wrote: > Greetings all

Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports

2012-01-13 Thread George Kontostanos
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:18 PM, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:11:22PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: >> on 13/01/2012 14:57 George Kontostanos said the following: >> > Still the question remains regarding COMPAT_FREEBSD8 and how does this >> > affects ports/misc/compat8x/ >> >>

Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports

2012-01-13 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 04:11:22PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 13/01/2012 14:57 George Kontostanos said the following: > > Still the question remains regarding COMPAT_FREEBSD8 and how does this > > affects ports/misc/compat8x/ > > Looks like all the previous hints have not been clear enough. >

Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports

2012-01-13 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 13/01/2012 14:57 George Kontostanos said the following: > Still the question remains regarding COMPAT_FREEBSD8 and how does this > affects ports/misc/compat8x/ Looks like all the previous hints have not been clear enough. There is no direct relation between COMPAT_FREEBSD8 and misc/compat8x. CO

Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports

2012-01-13 Thread George Kontostanos
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 2:34 PM, Johan Hendriks wrote: > George Kontostanos schreef: > >> On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Andriy Gapon  wrote: >>> >>> 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

Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports

2012-01-13 Thread Johan Hendriks
George Kontostanos schreef: On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: 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 wrote: Greetings all and my apologies for cross posting!

Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports

2012-01-13 Thread George Kontostanos
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote: > 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 >>> wrote: Greetings all and my apologies for cross posting! There s

Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports

2012-01-13 Thread Andriy Gapon
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 >> wrote: >>> Greetings all and my apologies for cross posting! >>> >>> There seems to be a confusion regarding the ABI change in FreeBSD 9 >>

Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports

2012-01-13 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 13/01/2012 12:19 Doug Barton said the following: > On 01/13/2012 02:06, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: >> Why can't it be that only shared libraries should be bumped, but no >> kernel incompatible changes were introduced? > > Because one of the reasons we have major branches is so that we can > chan

Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports

2012-01-13 Thread Doug Barton
On 01/13/2012 02:06, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > Why can't it be that only shared libraries should be bumped, but no > kernel incompatible changes were introduced? Because one of the reasons we have major branches is so that we can change the various API/KPI/etc. in the newer branch. Doug --

Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports

2012-01-13 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
George Kontostanos 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=28

Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports

2012-01-13 Thread Doug Barton
On 01/13/2012 01:52, George Kontostanos wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:42 PM, George Kontostanos > 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

Re: FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports

2012-01-13 Thread George Kontostanos
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:42 PM, George Kontostanos 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: h

FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports

2012-01-12 Thread George Kontostanos
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 conf