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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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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

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