On Monday 21 August 2006 13:56, Vivek Khera wrote: > On Aug 21, 2006, at 12:19 PM, Ian Smith wrote: > > b) do I need to upgrade all existing ports (way out of date) before > > the > > source upgrade, or can I be confident of doing that from 6.1 (-R or > > -S)? > > You really want to rebuild all your ports across major version > changes. If not, over time as you rebuild certain libraries they > will be pulling in multiple versions of other shared libs which may > be linked to other versions of base system libs and could conflict > with each other.
To be clear: yes, you want to rebuild your ports, but only _after_ the upgrade. Before won't help. -David -- "To get out of the Metaphysical Void, you either have to grasp the meaning of the universe or roll doubles twice." -Cecil Adams _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
