Problems with portmaster after upgrade to 8.1-RELEASE

Leslie Jensen leslie at eskk.nu
Sun Aug 29 15:11:57 UTC 2010



On 2010-08-29 17:07, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 04:55:52PM +0200, Leslie Jensen wrote:
>> Hello list.
>>
>> I've upgraded a system from 8.0 to 8.1 and it went well :-)
>>
>> Followed the portmaster manpage on how to reinstall my ports.
>
> Why?
>
> You only have to re-install all ports when changing between major releases
> e.g. 7.x to 8.x. Point releases are binary compatible.
>
Because I had not updated the ports on that machine since march this 
year :-o

/L


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