cvsup RELENG_6_3 to RELENG_7 impaired gnome

[Oliver Fromme]

Jason C. Wells wrote:
 > Try downloading the binary packages for 7.0 that you need and install 
 > them.  That would be fastest.

I think fastest would probably be to install the compat6x
package (or port).

Of course, it is certainly preferable to rebuild all ports
for FreeBSD 7 (or re-install prebuilt packages).  But if
you need to get everything running as quickly as possible,
installing compat6x is probably better.

 > FreeBSD doesn't claim to maintain binary (library?) compatibility across 
 > major releases.

Uhm.  I think that's wrong.  I still have a few FreeBSD 4.x
binaries that run fine on current versions of FreeBSD.  You
just have to install the appropriate compat* packages (and
the COMPAT_* options in your kernel, which is by default in
GENERIC anyway).

Best regards
   Oliver

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