portupgrade and freebsd-update: A better way?

Lowell Gilbert freebsd-ports-local at be-well.ilk.org
Fri Dec 12 19:09:16 PST 2008


Peter Beckman <beckman at angryox.com> writes:

> Is it safe to assume ABI compatibility between minor releases (6.1 -> 6.2)
> and must recompile everything between major releases (6.3 -> 7.0)?

That's the intended approach, but read the release notes and updating
instructions rather than assuming anything.


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