Upgrading to 7.0 - stupid requirements

[Chris H.]

Quoting Marko Lerota <mlerota at iskon.hr>:

> In http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/announce.html says
>
> Updating Existing Systems
>
>> An upgrade of any existing system to FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE constitutes
>> a major version upgrade, so no matter which method you use to update
>> an older system you should reinstall any ports you have installed on
>> the machine. This will avoid binaries becoming linked to inconsistent
>> sets of libraries when future port upgrades rebuild one port but not
>> others that link to it. This can be done with:
>
> # portupgrade -faP
>
> etc...
>
> Why!!! Do you know how much time I have to spend with my PC to reinstall
> all of this programs from ports? Only openoffice takes one day! And where
> is Gnome and such...There must be other way...I would not reinstall my
> packages ;)
>
> Then the servers. Why should I reinstall all my databases and such? I always
> liked that FreeBSD base (OS) is separated from packages. And no matter what I
> do with the packages, my OS will always work. I don't want dependency
> hell like in Linux. Now you are telling me that my database might not work
> after upgrade to a new version. Is that it?

While not a recommended substitution for "good housekeeping". I thought it
worth mentioning:
LIBMAP.CONF(5)
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=libmap.conf&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.3-RELEASE&format=html


--Chris H

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