Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:47:13 -0600 From: Kirk Strauser <kirk@strauser.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WARNING: portupgrade considered harmful Message-ID: <87vfz4c9am.fsf@strauser.com> In-Reply-To: <3E5FB1F8.4050405@mail.flyingcroc.net> (Joe Kelsey's message of "Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:01:12 -0800") References: <3E5FB1F8.4050405@mail.flyingcroc.net>
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--=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 2003-02-28T19:01:12Z, Joe Kelsey <joek@mail.flyingcroc.net> writes: > 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. That `so-called "feature"' is documented in the portupgrade man page. > ...because ld will silently use old, obsolete libraries instead of the new > libraries! Wouldn't ld use the version of libraries that the program is requesting? Put another way, why would a program ever get the old version of a library by accident? =2D-=20 Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA+X+b05sRg+Y0CpvERAjDcAKCQIoWdsv6bwaRY/Ui3Jef8+g/WXwCgk3vQ xwRFi3Megv53wwU24byNbbQ= =nraK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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