On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 03:20:52PM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: > > On Oct 19, 2005, at 5:10 PM, dick hoogendijk wrote: > > >Wat is the best way to get the cleanest FreeBSD-6.x system without > >installing from scratch? Recompile each port? Or use the > >COMPAT_FREEBSD5 layer? > > > > > > this is a different question than you asked before... the > COMPAT_FREEBSD5 will allow your existing binaries to continue to > run. you can leave this on while you run "portupgrade -f -a" to > recompile all your ports, then you can take it out... and remove all > the compat libraries sitting around if you care to do so. > > personally, I don't see the point of doing that. just let your ports > naturally get replaced as they are upgraded due to version bumps and > such.
This isn't enough, because you'll still get new 6.0 ports compiled against old 5.x libraries and the situation I detailed in my previous email. If you want to use continue to ports after upgrading to a new major release, you *must* first recompile your old ports to avoid those problems. Kris
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