Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 22:08:22 +0000 From: "Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira" <lioux@uol.com.br> To: Michael Harnois <mharnois@cpinternet.com> Cc: Alex Varju <alex@varju.bc.ca>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libpng version bump Message-ID: <20010912220822.A20985@exxodus.fedaykin.here> In-Reply-To: <86k7z32a8s.fsf@mharnois.workgroup.net>; from mharnois@cpinternet.com on Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 07:40:45PM -0500 References: <20010912152207.G62614-100000@snapple.webct.com> <86k7z32a8s.fsf@mharnois.workgroup.net>
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On Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 07:40:45PM -0500, Michael Harnois wrote: > On Wed, 12 Sep 2001 15:26:14 -0700 (PDT), Alex Varju <alex@varju.bc.ca> said: > > > I have a quick question about policy regarding version bumps for > > shared libraries. I have gotten in the habit of removing old > > versions of ports before installing the new one, and found that > > suddenly a large number of things stopped working with the > > libpng major was incremented. > > I second the question. I still haven't located all the dependencies I > need to fix. It was a minor disaster. Well, it took me 3 hours to rebuild. At least, I was aware of the problem before I began updating but it would have been nice to be able to have used automated portupgrade instead of using my own hacked scripts to uninstall/reinstall png related ports. -- Mario S F Ferreira - UnB - Brazil - "I guess this is a signature." lioux at ( freebsd dot org | linf dot unb dot br ) flames to beloved devnull@someotherworldbeloworabove.org feature, n: a documented bug | bug, n: an undocumented feature To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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