Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 11:27:12 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> To: "Jason C. Wells" <jcwells@highperformance.net> Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: YA fortune Message-ID: <20020510112712.C57329@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <20020509214345.M28407-100000@server2.highperformance.net>; from jcwells@highperformance.net on Thu, May 09, 2002 at 09:52:19PM -0700 References: <20020509193159.A40234-100000@pogo.caustic.org> <20020509214345.M28407-100000@server2.highperformance.net>
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Jason C. Wells said on May 9, 2002 at 21:52:19: > > I never even considered that there would be a problem. FreeBSD upgrades > all sorts of stuff all the time and its nevera problem. Well, true for the base system. Most people also need ports, and those can be a problem. The one that bit me, and many other people, was libpng 1.0->1.2 which affected just about every graphical program/desktop environment. The ugly part was that the libpng upgrade was sneaked in, without warning, by some other port which required it, and that broke all the existing ports. In principle that sort of thing could happen anywhere in the ports tree. Nothing one can do about it, except avoid installing new packages from the "fresh" ports tree and stick to the "releases", or else be prepared to rebuild everything (portupgrade makes that easier but it's still very time-consuming). As for linux -- it's the same problem, but well, that's what distros are for, no? If Bill Paul wrote that in 1996, it was probably justified, but today it's not. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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