Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:54:33 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanegomi@gmail.com> To: Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks@gmail.com> Cc: allan@stokes.ca, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: upgrade issue 8.x to 9.0-RC2: libz.so.5 not found Message-ID: <CAGH67wRp7OH_7bC5J-jsbzSN3ms_g6CApwUVETpY5wsx-K5i0Q@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4ED49CA4.6000502@gmail.com> References: <0168ab7579589d8d866ce8ff93544f1f.squirrel@sm.webmail.pair.com> <4ED49CA4.6000502@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks@gmail.com> w=
rote:
> allan@stokes.ca schreef:
>>
>> However, programs such as startx and portupgrade are failing with the
>> message "libz.so.5 not found". =A0I know I can fix this with an evil
>> symlink, but that doesn't seem right, and what else is broken? =A0Is the=
re
>> not a facility in portupgrade to scan my live dependencies and warn me o=
f
>> breakage? =A0I have not encountered such a beast in my gleanings to date=
.
>
> What you probably did is make delete-old-libs.
> This deletes the old 8.x libs that where used by your ports.
> What you need to do is rebuild all your ports.
>
> That way they get linked to the proper libs again.
>
> The next time when you go from one major to another major number eg from =
7
> to 8 or from 8 to 9 and so on, is to do the make delete-old-libs step lat=
er.
> Then after upgrading, rebuild all your ports, they still work with the ol=
d
> libs.
> Once the ports are rebuild against the newer libs then do the make
> delete-old-libs step.
>
> This is not nessacery when going from a minor number to amother minor
> number. eg from 8.1 to 8.2 and so on.
In general yes.. but there have been occasions when this was
required with libz...
Cheers,
-Garrett
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