Rebuild between dot versions?

Adam Weinberger adamw at adamw.org
Sun Sep 8 20:54:45 UTC 2019


On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 2:25 PM @lbutlr <kremels at kreme.com> wrote:
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> Is it necessary to rebuild ports when moving from dot versions (like 11.2 tp 11.3)?

Sometimes. If a shared library major number changes, or if anything is
statically linked, or if dependents expect things in certain places,
then yes. Your safest bet is, yes, rebuild everything that depends on
that port.

> Also, is there a way to use freebsd-update to see what the current patch level is of a release?

freebsd-version

# Adam


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