Portupgrade -af question

[Andre Guibert de Bruet]

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004, Donald J. O'Neill wrote:

> I'm also curious as to why you just do not use /etc/libmap.conf,
> instead of rebuilding all installed packages, that would be even
> faster. Just rebuild the ones that are necessary to be rebuilt
> right away and let the others go until `portversion -vL=`  says the
> installed package needs updating.

Simply because changes to system header files (As there were between 5.2 
and 5.3) can cause programs that deal directly with kernel interfaces to 
fail because of ABI incompatibilities. Remapping cannot fix this.

Regards,
Andy

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