Re: Upgrading 5.3 to 6.0 question

Thanks a lot.

On 1/31/06, Charles Swiger <cswiger@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Jan 31, 2006, at 3:28 PM, Michael S wrote:
> > I have a question related to upgrading my machine from 5.3 to 6.0.
> > I am convinced I need to upgrade it, and the base system upgrade
> > procedure is pretty much clear to me. However I am somewhat not clear
> > about 3rd party software. Since all the programs are 5.X binaries, do
> > I need to recompile/reinstall all of them? Or they can run fine under
> > COMPAT_FREEBSD5?
>
> So long as the FreeBSD 5 binary compatibility option is present, all
> of your existing binaries will run just fine under FreeBSD 6.
> However, anything which you can rebuild or reinstall should be
> upgraded (perhaps via "portupgrade -af"?) as soon as convenient, to
> avoid mixing two versions of the shared libraries together.
>
> --
> -Chuck
>
>
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