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Re: mail/mutt-devel: new errors



Dear Matthias, is there a way to rebuild all the installed packages at once
in order to avoid failure? It is already happening on my system with many
packages.

Thanks,
Arthur

2012/3/6 Matthias Scheler <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost>

> On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 11:09:56PM +0530, Mayuresh wrote:
> > But generally, OS upgrade's interaction with pkg is an area not very
> clear
> > to me. (Whether such rebuild should be necessary and if so, what's the
> way
> > to reliably trigger it etc.)
>
> A set of packages build completely under the old release should work fine.
> A set of packages build completely under the new release must work fine.
> A mixture of packages build under the old and new system will fail
> in interesting ways and is therefore not advisable.
>
> And this is not something that NetBSD could realistically fix. The
> maintainers
> of G++ e.g. keep changing the C++ ABI.
>
>        Kind regards
>
> --
> Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/


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