Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm shortly going to update my laptop from 7.0-BETA2 (a fresh
install) to 7.0-RC1. I'll do this with a buildworld/installworld
cycle. However, reading the site for freebsd-update I noticed that if
I were to do a binary upgrade then it recommends rebuilding all ports
as well.
Is rebuilding all ports something I should consider if I'm doing a
source-based upgrade too? Even though I'm not crossing a major
version boundary?
Once 7.0 is released, then there is a promise of binary compatibility
for any software compiled under some 7.x version to work certainly with
any later 7.x version, and possibly with any earlier 7.x version as
well[*].
However, 7.0-RELEASE isn't actually out there yet, and the Release
Engineers may well be making last minute incompatible changes. If
freebsd-update recommends wholesale updating of ports, then there's
a good reason for that. I will state though that I've been tracking
7.x since fairly shortly after the RELENG_7 branch was created and apart
from the big 6 - 7 update I've not seen any compatibility problems with
ported software.
Cheers,
Matthew
[*] I can't remember if the backwards compatibility with the major
version is guaranteed or not. Forward certainly is. Also there's
the new symbol versioning thing within shlibs that changes the way
this sort of thing works.
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Thanks for the info Matthew.
Peter Harrison.
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