On Sun, 2004-09-05 at 20:06, Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Monday 06 September 2004 01:27, Bruce A. Mah wrote: > > Howdy-- > > > > I've volunteered to rework the 5.X Early Adopters Guide into a Migration > > Guide. The focus of this document is less about discouraging unwary > > users and more about what kinds of changes users might encounter when > > they move from 4.X to 5.X. > > > > I'd like to solicit a pre-commit review on the document at: > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~bmah/pub/article.html > > Nice document! > > One thing I'm missing: > > The pthread libraries change probably requires people to recompile things > linked to it if they're migrating from 4.x - users updating from 5.x-Releases > can get away with setting up libmap.conf (maybe this is true for updating > from 4.x as well, can some threads expert comment on it?). Users should really rebuild ALL ports when upgrading from 4.X to 5.3-RELEASE. Only simple applications that only rely on libraries in compat4x will work correctly. Others, for example GTK+ apps, may link to both libc_r.so.4 and libpthread.so.1. That could spell disaster. I would also mention /usr/ports/UPDATING in this document. There are a lot of useful hints in there when it comes to upgrading things such as Perl and X (as well as the recently recent KDE 3.3). Plus, it would give this file much needed publicity. Joe -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc
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