Re: Questions about /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg

Am 08.11.21 um 11:04 schrieb freebsd@ohreally.nl:
> On 08/11/2021 10:59, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>> Are you sure you don't have a BACKUP_LIBRARIES env var which is setup ?
> 
> Yes, I am sure.
> 
>> Are you out of curiosity using portmaster?
> 
> I always install from ports, and for upgrades I use portsnap/portupgrade.
> Should I direct my bug report elsewhere?
> 
> (Since the directory is called pkg, and the only line of documentation I could
> find about this directory is in pkg.conf(5), I was sure pkg was the problematic
> application.)

I do not know anything about portupgrade, but portmaster does offer to
preserve shared libraries in the compat/pkg directory.

But they are always copied by portzmaster, and therefore no dangling
symbolic link can be created that way.

And the backup is deleted again, if the upgrade installs a new library
with the same name (i.e. if libA.so.5 has been copied to compat/pkg and
the upgrade creates a new libA.so.5 in /usr/local/lib/libA.so.5, then
the file in compat/pkg will be deleted - but if the upgrade brought a
library named libA.so.6, the libA.so.5 file would persist and be available
for ports that have not been re-compiled for libA.so.6).

Regards, STefan