Shared libraries version bump?
Thomas Mueller
mueller6727 at bellsouth.net
Thu Sep 8 10:22:51 UTC 2011
From: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel at gmail.com>
> The bump was done for BETA2, see r225227, done on 2011-08-28.
> The bump has much less scope since we did the ABI analysis and
> only bumped the libraries which interfaces changed in incompatible
> way and which were not yet bumped. See the referenced commit for
> the libraries list.
> To be absolutely safe, you indeed need to rebuild all ports. Practically,
> the damage done by bump is very limited and most people can get away
> without rebuild if you already tracked HEAD.
> I would mostly worry about libpcap.
Thanks for information.
I would not have known where to look for the commits, or I would have found it and not have had to ask this question.
I think I'll rebuild all ports, and more, maybe I should make and keep packages in case I can't update to BETA3 in place.
For now I will keep the BETA1 installation, use the ports tree from there, and portsnap fetch update instead of installing the ports from BETA2.
I will delete and redo the partitions where I have the nonworking installation of NetBSD-current and install FreeBSD 9.0 BETA2 there, but keep the already existing /home partition.
I had been daily browsing ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases, so I found BETA2 on Sep 2. I didn't even know which emailing list to use for beta releases, after much browsing found freebsd-current to be the best fit.
Tom
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