From owner-freebsd-ports Wed Sep 12 18: 7:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from heaven.gigo.com (gigo.com [207.173.11.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1A0A37B407 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 18:07:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 200.181.48.218 (unknown [200.181.48.218]) by heaven.gigo.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA3C3B7F2 for ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 18:05:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 21049 invoked by uid 1001); 12 Sep 2001 22:08:44 -0000 From: "Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira" Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 22:08:22 +0000 To: Michael Harnois Cc: Alex Varju , freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libpng version bump Message-ID: <20010912220822.A20985@exxodus.fedaykin.here> References: <20010912152207.G62614-100000@snapple.webct.com> <86k7z32a8s.fsf@mharnois.workgroup.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <86k7z32a8s.fsf@mharnois.workgroup.net>; from mharnois@cpinternet.com on Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 07:40:45PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 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