Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 16:03:21 -0800 From: Sean McNeil <sean@mcneil.com> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: MFC of bump in libcom_err.so another mistake? Message-ID: <7B0411F5-FCBC-40BC-94CA-2B8AA13FA783@mcneil.com> In-Reply-To: <20060131235035.B95776@fledge.watson.org> References: <1138476952.86610.1.camel@triton.mcneil.com> <20060131235035.B95776@fledge.watson.org>
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On Jan 31, 2006, at 3:52 PM, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Sean McNeil wrote: > >> I was wondering if this was on purpose. Seems like there is no >> good reason that it was done on -STABLE and it has really messed >> up everything here for me. >> >> libcom_err.so.2 bumped to libcom_err.so.3. > > It was on purpose, but not necessarily for a good reason. Could > you be more specific about "really messed up everything here for > me", which sounds a lot to me like "and all hell broken loose"? I > assume there's some sort of library and application versioning > problem, but some details would be helpful. I had several big packages that depended on kerberos and they all broke because: 1) libcom_err.so.2.1 was moved to /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg/ 2) The symlink libcom_err.so.2 was removed and nothing was placed in compat. I finally got smart and just added an entry to libmap.conf and so I'm not "really messed up...". That was not accurate in the first place :) > In principle, other than potentially requiring compat libs to run > old binaries even though that may not strictly have been necessary, > it seems likely that a binary depending on the old libcom_err > depends also on an old libc. On the other hand, I consider library > version number interactions to be mysterious, and likely have > missed the point. :-) The point I am making is that this is in the -STABLE tree, not the - CURRENT tree. There is no bump of libc and I don't see any reason for the libcom_err.so revision bump in -STABLE. IMHO, it didn't make sense. Cheers, Sean
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