George Kontostanos wrote: > Greetings all and my apologies for cross posting! > > There seems to be a confusion regarding the ABI change in FreeBSD 9 > and if this affects the usual upgrade path which includes a full port > rebuild. > > The relevant post is here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=28831 > > Frankly, I am also confused because I remember a relevant discussion a > few months ago in the lists. Traditionally a major RELEASE upgrade > requires a full ports rebuild, however this time there is no > COMPAT_FREEBSD8 in GENERIC and most upgraded systems seem to be > working fine. On the other hand this is stated in UPDATING: > > 20110828: > Bump the shared library version numbers for libraries that > do not use symbol versioning, have changed the ABI compared > to stable/8 and which shared library version was not bumped. > Done as part of 9.0-RELEASE cycle. > > Your input would be appreciated! Why can't it be that only shared libraries should be bumped, but no kernel incompatible changes were introduced? -- Sphinx of black quartz judge my vow.Received on Fri Jan 13 2012 - 09:06:05 UTC
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