From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 25 11:21:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C516037B405; Tue, 25 Dec 2001 11:21:26 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 4E34614C53; Tue, 25 Dec 2001 20:21:24 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: NIIMI Satoshi Cc: stable@freebsd.org, obrien@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libfetch.so.2 should be included in src/lib/compat/compat4x.* References: <20011223143139.97F8AFB@berkeley.sa2c.net> <20011225040025.7A99322B@berkeley.sa2c.net> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 25 Dec 2001 20:21:23 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20011225040025.7A99322B@berkeley.sa2c.net> Message-ID: Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG NIIMI Satoshi writes: > Without libfetch.so.2, upcoming 4.5-RELEASE will lose backward > compatibility with previous 4.x releases. The only libfetch consumers (that I know of) are fetch(1) and the pkg tools. Old binaries will still work on an upgraded system (which will still have libfetch.so.2) but not on a fresh install (which will lack libfetch.so.2), but both upgraded and freshly installed systems will have up-to-date versions of fetch(1) and the pkg tools. Moreover, libfetch.so.3 is backward compatible, so a symlink should be sufficient to support old binaries. The reason for the bump is that new binaries will not work with an old library. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message