Re: Necessity of rebuilding pkgsrc after updating the system

[Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost>]

The answer is not a simple yes or no.

The basic idea is: you can upgrade the base system and keep using the
old pkgs just fine.

However, if you start later updating pkgs, it gets more tricky: you can
keep updating binary pkgs build on the old (original) system version
(or with a chroot setup and some tricks build localy).

If you start building new/updated pkgs from source on the updated system,
all bets are off and best practices say: start from scratch and rebuild
all your pkgs.

Martin