From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 28 14:47:23 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 7117537B405 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:47:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from kanga.honeypot.net (kanga.honeypot.net [208.162.254.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A9B443FB1 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:47:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) Received: from pooh.strauser.com (kirk@pooh.honeypot.net [10.0.5.128]) by kanga.honeypot.net (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1SMlGxc095047 for ; Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:47:16 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from kirk@strauser.com) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WARNING: portupgrade considered harmful From: Kirk Strauser Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:47:13 -0600 In-Reply-To: <3E5FB1F8.4050405@mail.flyingcroc.net> (Joe Kelsey's message of "Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:01:12 -0800") Message-ID: <87vfz4c9am.fsf@strauser.com> Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) Emacs/21.2 References: <3E5FB1F8.4050405@mail.flyingcroc.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" 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 --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable At 2003-02-28T19:01:12Z, Joe Kelsey 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