upgrade 7.0 -> 7.1 : portupgrade -af required?

[Odhiambo Washington]

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Olivier Mueller <om-lists-bsd at omx.ch>wrote:

> Hello,
>
> After an upgrade from FreeBSD 7.0 to 7.1 (with freebsd-update in my
> case), is it required to recompile all ports (portupgrade -af) like
> specified in some docs/blog-entries, or is it not *really* necessary?


No. Not necessary for point upgrades.


>
> What are you doing on your production systems?   Having to upgrade
> several servers (>15), it's quite important for me to estimate the time
> required for the operation...
>
> I did the upgrade on a test server here, and all ports still seems to
> work  (apache, php, mysql, etc.) so I guess the answer is no, but I'd
> like to be sure before upgrading some important servers :-)
>
> According to:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.1R/announce.html
> "Users of earlier FreeBSD releases (FreeBSD 6.x) can also use
> freebsd-update to upgrade to FreeBSD 7.1, but will be prompted to
> rebuild all third-party applications (e.g., anything installed from the
> ports tree) after the second invocation of "freebsd-update install", in
> order to handle differences in the system libraries between FreeBSD 6.x
> and FreeBSD 7.x."
>
> It would be necessary only for major upgrades (6.x -> 7.x).   Right?


Yes. That document is quite clear.


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