Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:44:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> To: <daniel.fisher@vt.edu> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: pkg_update Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.32.0105151141460.60769-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us> In-Reply-To: <01051512270602.17969@psych.ward.vt.edu>
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On Tue, 15 May 2001, Daniel Fisher wrote: > this seems to work well. Correct me if I'm wrong, but portupgrade > will not work if you are upgrading to a port which produces a > newer shared object.. So if your current version of png is > libpng.so.4 & you compile the newest version which produces > libpng.so.5 This will break any applications which were compiled > to use libpng.so.4 Is that right? Or does portupgrade fix this as > well? I imagine it would break the old software, yes, unless the old library were backwards compatible. I have upgraded png a few times already without any problem, but I'm not sure if I did a major version upgrade at some point in time or just a minor. -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net FreeBSD: The fastest and most stable server OS on the planet. For IA32 and Alpha architectures. IA64, PPC, and ARM under development. http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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