FreeBSD 9 & recompile ports

[George Kontostanos]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Andriy Gapon <avg at freebsd.org> wrote:
> on 13/01/2012 11:59 Doug Barton said the following:
>> On 01/13/2012 01:52, George Kontostanos wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:42 PM, George Kontostanos
>>> <gkontos.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Greetings all and my apologies for cross posting!
>>>>
>>>> There seems to be a confusion regarding the ABI change in FreeBSD 9
>>>> and if this affects the usual upgrade path which includes a full port
>>>> rebuild.
>>>>
>>>> The relevant post is here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=28831
>>>>
>>>> Frankly, I am also confused because I remember a relevant discussion a
>>>> few months ago in the lists. Traditionally a major RELEASE upgrade
>>>> requires a full ports rebuild, however this time there is no
>>>> COMPAT_FREEBSD8 in GENERIC and most upgraded systems seem to be
>>>> working fine. On the other hand this is stated in UPDATING:
>>>>
>>>> 20110828:
>>>>        Bump the shared library version numbers for libraries that
>>>>        do not use symbol versioning, have changed the ABI compared
>>>>        to stable/8 and which shared library version was not bumped.
>>>>        Done as part of 9.0-RELEASE cycle.
>>>>
>>>> Your input would be appreciated!
>>
>>> Hmm, anyone :) ?
>>
>> If your question is, "Do I need to rebuild my ports when doing a major
>> OS version upgrade?" the answer is always "Yes."
>>
>> The method described at the end of the portmaster man page is preferred,
>> whether you actually use portmaster to do the upgrade or not. (I.e.,
>> good backups, delete everything, start over from scratch.)
>
> I think that another part of the question was "why there is no COMPAT_FREEBSD8
> kernel option in 9?" and I think that Volodymyr has tried to answer this part
> with another question.
>
> --
> Andriy Gapon

Hi guys,

I am aware of the proper procedure which requires a full rebuild after
a major upgrade.

Doug, the question had to to with  COMPAT_FREEBSD8 missing from GENERIC.

It seems this and the fact that some upgrades from 8.2-STABLE worked
fine without a recompile, has created the confusion.


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