Bakul Shah wrote:
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:54:55 +0100 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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.
Er... Can't one run old binaries after installing one or more
of usr/ports/misc/compat-[3456]x -- that has not changed, has
it?
No, it has not.
As I've tried to explain, the difficulty is when you start recompiling
parts of them, e.g. a shared library used by other ports.
Kris
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