6.0 release date and stability

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Sat Oct 22 12:57:00 PDT 2005


On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 09:52:19PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote:
> On 22 Oct Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 03:41:33PM +0200, dick hoogendijk wrote:
> > > On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 15:30:52 -0400
> > > Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > But he old libraries are still on the system than, aren't they?
> > > > > Or will they not be used and if not, why?
> > > > 
> > > > Use libchk and pkg_which..see their manpages.
> > > 
> > > After looking into the manual(s) this seems to be a "dangerous" or at
> > > least not an easy operation. Can someone be a little more specific
> > > about how to remove old 4.x / 5.x libraries from a FreeBSD system?
> > 
> > That's the best there is for 6.0 (so run a full backup first).  7.0
> > has a 'make delete-old' target that removes known old files from your
> > base system.  I don't know if netchild has plans to backport it, but
> > you could ask him.
> 
> OK, thanks for this answer. I may be overreacting ;-)
> Is it Ok to say that after *recompiling* each port with "portupgrade
> -fa" on a 5.4 system updated to 6.0 old libraries will no be dangerous
> in a way that they would be used any longer?

Yes.  You can verify this with libchk.

> Should I remove the compat-options from the kernel before or after the
> recompilation of all ports?

After you're sure nothing uses them any longer, or you'll have a
partly broken system in the meantime.

Kris
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