Re: the case of untracked base shlibs

On Tue, May 12, 2026 at 3:06 PM Konstantin Belousov <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> This is really not true.  The ports must be consistent, but that it.
> After upgrading the system to any version, the existing binaries should
> continue to work, and they do.

They do continue working. But the user should not run "make
delete-old-libs" or third "freebsd-update install" to leave old libs
in place.

> We do put a lot of efforts to maintain ABI to make this happen.
> The only problematic area is the networking management.
>
> In fact, if not the 13 deprecation, the packages could stay on the repo
> built for 13, and updated there.

It is also possible, but then the user should use packages compiled
for the old base.