Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:33:12 -0800 (PST) From: Frank Mayhar <frank@exit.com> To: Joe Kelsey <joek@mail.flyingcroc.net> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME <freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: WARNING: portupgrade considered harmful Message-ID: <200302281933.h1SJXCKX093415@realtime.exit.com> In-Reply-To: <3E5FB1F8.4050405@mail.flyingcroc.net>
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Joe Kelsey wrote: > Some time ago, the maintainers of the pkgtools slipped a new ability > into portupgrade: the ability to silently move "obsolete" shared > libraries into /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg. This so-called "feature" has > caused me no end of trouble in the last few days. > [trimmed] This is just a quick "me too" with respect to this new, um, feature. I ran into it a couple of weeks ago, but I just pounded on things until I fixed it (which involved deleting some stuff out of .../compat/pkg and rebuilding a bunch of ports). Definitely violates POLA, in a big way. Well, _I_ was astonished, anyway. -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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