5.5 to 6.1 upgrade

[David Syphers]

On Monday 21 August 2006 13:56, Vivek Khera wrote:
> On Aug 21, 2006, at 12:19 PM, Ian Smith wrote:
> > b) do I need to upgrade all existing ports (way out of date) before
> > the
> > source upgrade, or can I be confident of doing that from 6.1 (-R or
> > -S)?
>
> You really want to rebuild all your ports across major version
> changes.  If not, over time as you rebuild certain libraries they
> will be pulling in multiple versions of other shared libs which may
> be linked to other versions of base system libs and could conflict
> with each other.

To be clear: yes, you want to rebuild your ports, but only _after_ the 
upgrade. Before won't help.

-David

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