Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 22:52:52 +0200 From: Nevermind <never@nevermind.kiev.ua> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: NIIMI Satoshi <sa2c@and.or.jp>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libfetch.so.2 should be included in src/lib/compat/compat4x.* Message-ID: <20011225225252.A38125@nevermind.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <xzp3d1zm7gs.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 08:21:23PM %2B0100 References: <20011223143139.97F8AFB@berkeley.sa2c.net> <xzpwuzdact2.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <20011225040025.7A99322B@berkeley.sa2c.net> <xzp3d1zm7gs.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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Hello, Dag-Erling Smorgrav! On Tue, Dec 25, 2001 at 08:21:23PM +0100, you wrote: > NIIMI Satoshi <sa2c@and.or.jp> 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. Almost every http/ftp-accessing software (on C/C++), we wrote here uses libfetch, I suppose your reasons for not adding libfetch.so.2 to compat4x is not very good. We will need to rebuild and/or make symlink on every machine running libfetch. I think it is not right. > > 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. Yes, it works for now. But if I need sell software to somebody, who runs 4.5-RELEASE he/she will say me: "What the hell is going on? Your ... program says it cannot find some library. I've searched all my harddrive and have not found libfetch.so.2...". And, please note, he/she didn't know anything about symlinks, he/she is just enduser. -- NEVE-RIPE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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