Edwin Groothuis wrote:
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 12:08:22AM +0100, 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
Should, not must. Use misc/compat6x if you don't want to do this,
but that doesn't work for things which look in the kernel (sysutils/lsof
for example)
No: must, not should.
If you don't do this, then when you update e.g. only some of the gnome
libraries without recompiling all of gnome, then your gnome binaries
will have libraries linked to libc.so.6 and libc.so.7, and to
libkse.so.2 as well as libthr.so.3, and this is a guaranteed runtime
crash because these are mutually inconsistent sets of libraries.
The mailing list archives have many examples of people who ran into this
in the past.
Kris
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