Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:08:55 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: New shared library versions coming soon Message-ID: <20050721180855.GA52930@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <1121952594.68685.27.camel@opus.cse.buffalo.edu> References: <1121952594.68685.27.camel@opus.cse.buffalo.edu>
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--C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:29:54AM -0400, Ken Smith wrote: > Since support for this is new, what needs to be done now will be worse > than what we will be doing down the road. Tomorrow we will bump the > shared library version numbers in both RELENG_6 and HEAD by one so that > they differ from the version numbers currently in RELENG_5. Then some > time a bit after the 6.0-RELEASE is finished we will bump all the > version numbers in HEAD again. >=20 > It will take a while for the fallout from this version bump to > propagate. People who cvsup/rebuild existing systems should not be > impacted immediately - you will still have the older library versions > present on your systems. However it will take time for the pre-built > packages provided by the portmgr folks to be rebuilt, loaded onto the > FTP servers, and propagate out to the mirrors. Based on this I'm going to hold off on uploading the packages-7-current/ packages since they'd have to be replaced ASAP anyway. In the meantime, people can use packages on HEAD by setting PACKAGESITE to use the packages-6-current/ packages, which should almost all work fine on HEAD. Kris --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFC3+S3Wry0BWjoQKURAod7AJ4yrBXtbKqP9JVQsLx4nwBIgyy/HQCg35gM xlNFFHzzF3F+OP2fymqaFjE= =fXUN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --C7zPtVaVf+AK4Oqc--
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