From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 18 17:49:36 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A935E16A481 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:49:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao104.cox.net (eastrmmtao104.cox.net [68.230.240.46]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37F0413C4F0 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:49:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmimpo01.cox.net ([68.1.16.119]) by eastrmmtao106.cox.net (InterMail vM.7.08.02.01 201-2186-121-102-20070209) with ESMTP id <20080218171246.OLEJ20005.eastrmmtao106.cox.net@eastrmimpo01.cox.net>; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:12:46 -0500 Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([24.255.149.218]) by eastrmimpo01.cox.net with bizsmtp id r5Cb1Y00R4iy4EG0200000; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:12:36 -0500 Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:13:56 -0600 To: "Yoshihiro Ota" From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <36e46ac80802171226p6a18997ao21e03b626425695e@mail.gmail.com> <47B8A3B2.8090202@infracaninophile.co.uk> <1203283417.6223.3.camel@pclmills> <20080217212857.c4df5d25.ota@j.email.ne.jp> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20080217212857.c4df5d25.ota@j.email.ne.jp> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.25 (Linux) Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Atanas Gendov , oscartheduck@gmail.com Subject: Re: Problems with icu - 3.8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 17:49:36 -0000 On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:28:57 -0600, Yoshihiro Ota wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:23:37 -0700 > James 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? Backup the old libraries aren't right solution, anyway. The right solution is to add in UPDATING to tell users to rebuild all of ports that depend on icu. Read all follow up in http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-ports/2008-February/142107.html .. Cheers, Mezz > Hiro -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team - FreeBSD Multimedia Hat (ports, not src) http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org http://wiki.freebsd.org/multimedia - multimedia@FreeBSD.org