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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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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.

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