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Date:      Tue, 28 Mar 1995 11:11:07 -0500
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk>
Cc:        wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman), phk@ref.tfs.com, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: shared library versioning
Message-ID:  <9503281611.AA12354@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199503281027.LAA17860@isl.cf.ac.uk>
References:  <9503272218.AA11072@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> <199503281027.LAA17860@isl.cf.ac.uk>

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<<On Tue, 28 Mar 1995 11:27:21 +0100 (BST), Paul Richards <paul@isl.cf.ac.uk> said:

> Yeah, I agree with this. During the release cycle we can handle any 
> library problems ourselves by recompiling what we need to.

> We maybe should have some mechanism for tracking this so that we know when
> changing the libraries that someone has already bumped the numbers since the
> last release.

Well, all that's really needed is a file (I propose
/usr/share/misc/shlib-numbers) which lists the shared-libraries and
minor numbers used in each release.  I will do this today if somebody
doesn't beat me to it.

-GAWollman

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