Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 15:48:44 -0600 From: Larry Rosenman <ler@lerctr.org> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Gunnar Flygt <flygt@sr.se>, FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: png-port-upgrade gave med defunct kde Message-ID: <20011112154844.A13078@lerami.lerctr.org> In-Reply-To: <200111122133.fACLXQd31109@ptavv.es.net> References: <3BF038EA.B5586CD8@herbelot.com> <200111122133.fACLXQd31109@ptavv.es.net>
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* Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> [011112 15:46]: > > Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 22:02:34 +0100 > > From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com> > > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > > > > > > > Upgraded png from 1.0.12 to 1.2.0 That was a catastrophy for kde! No more > > > > icons at all! Anyone else seen this? Fix? kde is 2.2.1 > > > > I just killed my 4-Stable machine by portupgrad-ing it : the result was > > a total mess (anyway, a full reinstall was needed) > > > > this was the same libpng problem as Gunnar > > I hit the same problem. The cause, in my case, was a change in the > function of certain options on portupgrade. The -u flag will cause > older versions of shared libraries to be de-installed. I think that it > used to de-install old versions of the software. In any case, I did a > "portupgrade -Rru libpng" and lost the version 4 sharable. (I > recovered by getting the same sharable from another system.) > > By default, portupgrade does not delete older versions of sharable > libraries. > > Seems odd that it was libpng and only libpng that seems to have bitten > several people, though. I think some of the issue is that some of the Gnome ports don't declare ALL of their dependencies, so things break in wierd ways. > > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Larry Rosenman http://www.lerctr.org/~ler Phone: +1 972-414-9812 E-Mail: ler@lerctr.org US Mail: 1905 Steamboat Springs Drive, Garland, TX 75044-6749 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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