From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Dec 25 16:21:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from berkeley.sa2c.net (50.SUB48.193.194.61.in-addr.arpa [61.194.193.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F84F37B419; Tue, 25 Dec 2001 16:21:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from berkeley.sa2c.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by berkeley.sa2c.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6851B55; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 09:21:08 +0900 (JST) To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav 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: NIIMI Satoshi Date: 26 Dec 2001 09:21:08 +0900 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-Id: <20011226002108.6851B55@berkeley.sa2c.net> 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 Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: > 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. Because fetch(3) is very reasonable (I thank you, DES), I wrote some programs that use libfetch and the programs have some non-experienced users. When the guys will deploy new 4.5-RELEASE systems, they will confuse and contact me because the programs does not work even with compat libraries. I don't want such a waste of time. > 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. If symbolic link is sufficient, src/lib/compat/compat4x.i386/Makefile or sysinstall should create one. Please do not expect users to do by hand. -- NIIMI Satoshi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message