re-compiling ports required after upgrading from 8.2 to 9.0 ?

[ahavatar]

Greetings,

I've upgraded my FreeBSD box from 8.2-STABLE to 9.0-STABLE. And it seems that almost all the ports installed seem to work without re-compiling.

I just needed to recompile ntfs-3g related ports --- except this I've not found any broken port from the upgrade.

Is it mandatory to re-compile every installed ports?

Thank you.

 

[wblock@]

Ports will continue to work as long as you don't upgrade or rebuild any of them, ever. To upgrade or change, all ports should be rebuilt.

 

[SirDice]

I'm sure things will start to break after a
# make -C /usr/src/ delete-old
# make -C /usr/src/ delete-old-libs

 

[rossiya]

Yes

pkg_libchk

is your friend after any major version upgrade. More usefully:

#### FORCE REBUILD BROKEN PACKAGES ######
#### PACKAGES WITH MISSING LIBS    ######
 pkg_libchk | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | tr -ds ':' '' | sort | uniq > missingLibs.txt
 portupgrade -fO --exclude '*bsdpan*'  `cat missingLibs.txt`