Gotchas to Downgrade from 7.0-CURRENTto FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE

[eculp at bafirst.com]

Quoting Darren Pilgrim <darren.pilgrim at bitfreak.org>:

> eculp at bafirst.com wrote:
> > I've lost track a bit of the differences between current and
> > 6.1-prerelease.  I don't remember anything major that would cause
> > problems.  Does anyone know of a potential gotcha or have suggestions
> > the smooth the pathe or has done this since the freeze?
>
> You'll want to wipe out all of the non-config files in /etc, use 
> mergemaster -i to install a fresh /etc and import your saved 
> configuration.
>
> > The machine that I am going to downgrade is my wife's and I don't really
> > want to recompile roughly 540 ports that are installed
>
> There are API-incompatible differences between -CURRENT and RELENG_6, 
> so you'll probably need to recompile all those ports anyway.

Thanks, Darren.  I was pretty sure that was the case.  I'm going to 
give linux-firefox a try and if it works, I'll try to keep her happy 
with that until the linuxpluginwrapper problem is solved.

I really see little difference between the two except for the plugin issue.

Thanks again,

ed