5.5 to 6.1 upgrade

[Chuck Swiger]

On Aug 23, 2006, at 4:41 PM, Greg Byshenk wrote:
> As a possible point of clarification, my comments earlier (and, I
> suspect similar comments of others) were not meant to imply that one
> should not rebuild ports after a major upgrade, but only that one need
> not do so _before_ upgrading.
>
> [...probably ... it worked for me ... YMMV ... if it is a critical
> package, then it wouldn't hurt to rebuild it first ... usw.]

Oh, certainly-- FreeBSD's COMPAT stuff will let you run binaries  
compiled against an older version of FreeBSD just fine for almost all  
circumstances.  However, as soon as you try to install a new port  
which depends on something already installed, or upgrade anything,  
you pretty much really need to upgrade *everything* to be sure that  
you don't compile new executables which depend on a mixture of COMPAT  
and current libraries...

-- 
-Chuck