update from 6 to 7 - needs libtool rebuild

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:55:31 -0600, John Hein <jhein at timing.com> wrote:

> Lowell Gilbert wrote at 16:35 -0500 on Nov 13, 2008:
>  > John Hein <jhein at timing.com> writes:
>  > > So my question is: is this documented and/or widely known?  A full
>  > > portupgrade wouldn't help if you were up to date on libtool in 6.x
>  > > before updating (unless portupgrade -f is used).
>  >
>  > But you've *always* needed to rebuild *all* your ports when system
>  > libraries got a version bump.  Symbol versioning may make this less of
>  > an issue in the future, but even then I'll be expecting to do it when  
> I
>  > make major version jumps.
>
> I often don't rebuild everything right away and live with the compat
> libs for a while.

As long as you don't use ports tree. Once you need someting by via ports  
tree then you have to rebuild/reinstall everything before you try to  
install some new ports.

Cheers,
Mezz

> That has worked fine in the past (probably had some hiccups that I've
> long since forgotten about).  But I understand why the official
> position is to rebuild everything.
>
>
>  > > Would it be worth documenting this in UPDATING (if I haven't
>  > > missed it somewhere)?
>  >
>  > It's in the release notes for every (I think) release.  Other places
>  > might make sense also, I guess...
>
> I don't see it at the moment (looking at 6.3's relnotes), but
> I didn't look too hard.
>
> Thanks for the answers.


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