Rebuild between dot versions?

[Adam Weinberger]

On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 2:54 PM Adam Weinberger <adamw at adamw.org> wrote:
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> On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 2:25 PM @lbutlr <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
> >
> > Is it necessary to rebuild ports when moving from dot versions (like 11.2 tp 11.3)?
>
> Sometimes. If a shared library major number changes, or if anything is
> statically linked, or if dependents expect things in certain places,
> then yes. Your safest bet is, yes, rebuild everything that depends on
> that port.

Oh, I think I completely misunderstood your question. You meant when
updating FreeBSD to new minors. No, it's not strictly necessary,
though you absolutely should rebuild anything that installs a KLD.
Compiler improvements usually happen in minor releases, so you
certainly won't get that benefit until you rebuild them all.

For majors, you absolutely must rebuild everything.

> > Also, is there a way to use freebsd-update to see what the current patch level is of a release?
>
> freebsd-version
>
> # Adam
>
>
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