Upgrading 5.3 to 6.0 question

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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Thanks a lot.

On 1/31/06, Charles Swiger <cswigermac.com> 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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