Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 19:36:49 +0200 From: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> To: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: devel/gettext notification in /usr/ports/UPDATING Message-ID: <20080606173649.GA88328@owl.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <4849681B.6070002@bsdforen.de> References: <484945CA.3010305@bsdforen.de> <4849681B.6070002@bsdforen.de>
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On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 06:38:51PM +0200, Dominic Fandrey wrote: > Dominic Fandrey wrote: > > I don't really understand why it's there and why it's recommending to > > rebuild > > all ports. > > > > I have 761 ports installed, but only 173 of them depend on gettext, so > > why should > > I reinstall more than 530 ports that don't need to be rebuild. > > > > What's even worse according to my shell-script pkg_libchk not a single > > one of > > the 173 ports depending on gettext needs to be rebuild because of libintl. > > Great, all ports depending on devel/gettext got bumped. > > My Shell script checks every single library and executable on the system > with ldd and it says _nothing is amiss_ after upgrading devel/gettext. And how does it know that all the existing libraries and executables are completely compatible with the new devel/gettext? > > Now I am condemned to rebuild ~100 ports, even though it is completely > unnecessary. Nobody forces you to rebuild them if you do not think it is necessary. > I do not have to tell you that downloading all the distfiles > over a GSM connection will take days. If you already have built the ports once, you will probably have most of the distfiles already. > And all this for no reason at all! > > What's going on here? > > Ldd says it's not necessary. Can anyone really argue with that? How can ldd determine that it is not necessary? -- <Insert your favourite quote here.> Erik Trulsson ertr1013@student.uu.se
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