From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 19 08:37:41 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FFD116A401 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:37:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from knightbg@yahoo.com) Received: from web32406.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web32406.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.207.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4EAFD13C448 for ; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:37:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from knightbg@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 7499 invoked by uid 60001); 19 Mar 2007 08:10:59 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=AcpcKbmHJrLiyn4221E0b7VCzlGayA+HbQd24k33Q0zN3P7FgTGWPN+0KY+x9xMq/LXPQ32uWarXuhTOmSSIzY3lJMJLActH8OtBJmL+nxt2eZMNcct49v7mFxTUBKXQ/2EdIfgDmbxl9KQMZZxMqSU4KCI4nTxHpzTWHpBM7qk=; X-YMail-OSG: s7Ieh54VM1nfFsqQo5.PiVSCyo2rar2mJkhkoBTv0jEBDsivpROdvCszspuy6i..gZfV.VjvHqHLUUOR3jrX_NKNFcb50JTZ5zLOlunWYVmq7lG88Jm7McvTNQ6RSvivVt3eMYHmK3utoQrtd5lWs0eXtw-- Received: from [72.68.192.198] by web32406.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:10:59 PDT Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 01:10:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Brian Gruber To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <21458.6639.qm@web32406.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 11:22:11 +0000 Subject: stupid question about -rf upgrades X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:37:41 -0000 Every once in a while (like this week with gettext) a library with a very large number of dependencies has a shared library version bump, and a note is placed in UPDATING requesting that users do something like portupgrade -rf gettext But if I'm using portupgrade, isn't this unnecessary? doesn't pkg_deinstall (and by extension portupgrade) preserve old shared libraries just to avoid this? what am i missing? why do i need to recompile half my system? thanks, /b ____________________________________________________________________________________ It's here! Your new message! Get new email alerts with the free Yahoo! Toolbar. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/