Marko Lerota wrote:
In http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html says
Updating Existing Systems
An upgrade of any existing system to FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE constitutes
a major version upgrade, so no matter which method you use to update
an older system you should reinstall any ports you have installed on
the machine. This will avoid binaries becoming linked to inconsistent
sets of libraries when future port upgrades rebuild one port but not
others that link to it. This can be done with:
# portupgrade -faP
etc...
Why!!! Do you know how much time I have to spend with my PC to reinstall
all of this programs from ports? Only openoffice takes one day! And where
is Gnome and such...There must be other way...I would not reinstall my
packages ;)
Then the servers. Why should I reinstall all my databases and such? I always
liked that FreeBSD base (OS) is separated from packages. And no matter what I
do with the packages, my OS will always work. I don't want dependency
hell like in Linux. Now you are telling me that my database might not work
after upgrade to a new version. Is that it?
First, try to relax.
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.
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.
Sometimes you can get away without the full recompile (this was more
often true in the past), but thesedays so many ports do things like
dynamic loading of shared libraries that it is effectively mandatory advice.
Feel free to ignore the advice if you continue to feel outraged by it,
but it will not be our fault when your ports suddenly stop working
properly after your subsequent port upgrades.
Kris
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