Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:40:10 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Atanas Gendov <atanas.gendov@gmail.com>, oscartheduck@gmail.com Subject: Re: Problems with icu - 3.8 Message-ID: <47B9608A.40304@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <20080217212857.c4df5d25.ota@j.email.ne.jp> References: <36e46ac80802171226p6a18997ao21e03b626425695e@mail.gmail.com> <47B8A3B2.8090202@infracaninophile.co.uk> <1203283417.6223.3.camel@pclmills> <20080217212857.c4df5d25.ota@j.email.ne.jp>
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Yoshihiro Ota wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:23:37 -0700 > James <oscartheduck@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 21:14 +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA256 >>> >>> Atanas Gendov wrote: >>>> Greetings to all from FreeBSD Ports!!! :) >>>> I have some problems with icu - 3.8. After portupgrade of icu and some >>>> others packages I can't start Gnome. Because of Gnome needs module from icu >>>> - 3.6. Unfortunately there is no new port for gdm which doesn't have depends >>>> on icu-3.6. >>> Lots of people are getting bitten by the effects of the bump in the >>> libicu* shlib ABI version numbers -- there really should be a note >>> in UPDATING about it. It affects all sorts of different packages -- >>> I've even got one system where it took out OpenLDAP. >> Do you know who to ask for the note? I was bitten by it, but fortunately there >> had just been a large thread in questions@ about it. It does seem to be a >> common issue. >> >> James > > > Why are so many people are bitten by this? Is that the jobs of port-upgrading > tool to safe copy these libraries to compat so that all programs using > the old libraries works? > > Hiro I detest this method of keeping programs working. It causes potentially vulnerable libraries to remain in use. I much prefer to run pkg_libchk -R (sysutils/bsdadminscripts) and rebuild the ports it lists as broken due to the change. I already advertised this solution in another thread about the icu problem on this list.
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