From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 28 11:33:22 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A66E37B406; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:33:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from tinker.exit.com (tinker.exit.com [206.223.0.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4476143FDF; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:33:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (realtime [206.223.0.5]) by tinker.exit.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1SJXCvW031455; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:33:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by realtime.exit.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1SJXCQu093416; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:33:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from frank@realtime.exit.com) Received: (from frank@localhost) by realtime.exit.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h1SJXCKX093415; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:33:12 -0800 (PST) From: Frank Mayhar Message-Id: <200302281933.h1SJXCKX093415@realtime.exit.com> Subject: Re: WARNING: portupgrade considered harmful In-Reply-To: <3E5FB1F8.4050405@mail.flyingcroc.net> To: Joe Kelsey Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:33:12 -0800 (PST) Cc: FreeBSD GNOME , freebsd-stable , freebsd-ports Reply-To: frank@exit.com X-Copyright0: Copyright 2003 Frank Mayhar. All Rights Reserved. X-Copyright1: Permission granted for electronic reproduction as Usenet News or email only. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL99b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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-stable" in the body of the message