Re: Ports and updating 6.2-STABLE to 7.0-PRERELEASE
Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I've just updated my system to 7.0-PRERELEASE from 6.2-STABLE on i386 and I was wondering what the recommendation is for ports. Specifically, is it necessary to rebuild all ports? So far, I haven't rebuilt any ports and haven't had any problems... Yes, it is always necessary when you update to a new major branch (such as 6.x - 7.x). The old applications will continue to run immediately after the upgrade and as long as you do not make further changes, but once you start doing new port upgrades and installs you will easily create ports that are linked to two versions of FreeBSD system libraries, e.g. libc.so.6 and libc.so.7. This doesn't work very well ;-) Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ports and updating 6.2-STABLE to 7.0-PRERELEASE
On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:57:08PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I've just updated my system to 7.0-PRERELEASE from 6.2-STABLE on i386 and I was wondering what the recommendation is for ports. Specifically, is it necessary to rebuild all ports? So far, I haven't rebuilt any ports and haven't had any problems... It is not strictly necessary to rebuild all ports, but I would recommend it and if you start to install any new ports then you should rebuild all the old ones first. Having some ports linked against 6.x libraries while some are linked against 7.x libraries can very easily lead to problems. (If one of your old ports (linked against 6.x libraries) provides some library which is used by one of the new ports (using 7.x libraries) then the new port can end up using two version of the same system library - both the 6.x version and the 7.x version. This will almost certainly not work correctly.) -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ports and updating 6.2-STABLE to 7.0-PRERELEASE
Hello, I've just updated my system to 7.0-PRERELEASE from 6.2-STABLE on i386 and I was wondering what the recommendation is for ports. Specifically, is it necessary to rebuild all ports? So far, I haven't rebuilt any ports and haven't had any problems... -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ports and updating 6.2-STABLE to 7.0-PRERELEASE
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:57:08PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I've just updated my system to 7.0-PRERELEASE from 6.2-STABLE on i386 and I was wondering what the recommendation is for ports. Specifically, is it necessary to rebuild all ports? So far, I haven't rebuilt any ports and haven't had any problems... It is not strictly necessary to rebuild all ports, but I would recommend it and if you start to install any new ports then you should rebuild all the old ones first. Having some ports linked against 6.x libraries while some are linked against 7.x libraries can very easily lead to problems. (If one of your old ports (linked against 6.x libraries) provides some library which is used by one of the new ports (using 7.x libraries) then the new port can end up using two version of the same system library - both the 6.x version and the 7.x version. This will almost certainly not work correctly.) Thank you for the info, I think I'll rebuild my ports. I imagine I could then use # portsclean --libclean to get rid of those 6.x libraries and have a nice *clean* system. -- Regards, Doug ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ports and updating 6.2-STABLE to 7.0-PRERELEASE
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:04:22 -0500 Doug Poland wrote: Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 03:57:08PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: Hello, I've just updated my system to 7.0-PRERELEASE from 6.2-STABLE on i386 and I was wondering what the recommendation is for ports. Specifically, is it necessary to rebuild all ports? So far, I haven't rebuilt any ports and haven't had any problems... It is not strictly necessary to rebuild all ports, but I would recommend it and if you start to install any new ports then you should rebuild all the old ones first. Having some ports linked against 6.x libraries while some are linked against 7.x libraries can very easily lead to problems. (If one of your old ports (linked against 6.x libraries) provides some library which is used by one of the new ports (using 7.x libraries) then the new port can end up using two version of the same system library - both the 6.x version and the 7.x version. This will almost certainly not work correctly.) Thank you for the info, I think I'll rebuild my ports. I imagine I could then use # portsclean --libclean Shouldn't it remove only libraries from ports? to get rid of those 6.x libraries and have a nice *clean* system. If you want to get a clean system and to get rid of 6.x libraries from base system you may be interested in make delete-old[-libs|-dirs] at /usr/src. More info at /usr/src/UPDATING and /usr/src/Makefile. WBR -- bsam ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
