From owner-freebsd-arch Tue Jul 9 16:28: 0 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74DA537B400; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 16:27:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B9DC43E09; Tue, 9 Jul 2002 16:27:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0275.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.199.20] helo=mindspring.com) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 17S4OX-0007OA-00; Tue, 09 Jul 2002 16:27:46 -0700 Message-ID: <3D2B7144.AA93AAB1@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 16:27:01 -0700 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: Simon Marlow , John Baldwin , arch@freebsd.org, Dan Nelson Subject: Re: Cleaning old packages (was: Package system flaws?) References: <20020709161953.GA69779@lpt.ens.fr> <20020709171417.GA69932@lpt.ens.fr> <20020709210911.GA248@lpt.ens.fr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > So I think both the port, and the dependency, should carry some sort > of versioning information. The port should say which versions of the > dependency it's compatible with, and the dependency should say which > earlier versions are safe to upgrade from. We used to put these things called "minor version numbers" on shared libraries, back in the pre-ELF days. They were removed when ELF came in. The reason given was $REASON ...oops... sorry... looks like that variable still doesn't expand. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message