HEADS-UP: Shared Library Versions bumped...

[Olivier SMEDTS]

2009/7/19 Thomas Backman <serenity at exscape.org>:
> On Jul 19, 2009, at 20:16, Ken Smith wrote:
>>
>> The problem is that as of the next time you update a machine that had
>> been running -current you are best off reinstalling all ports or other
>> applications you have on the machine.  When you reboot after doing the
>> update to the base system everything you have installed will still work
>> because the old shared library versions will still be there.  However
>> anything you build on the machine after its base system gets updated
>> would be linked against the newer base system shared libraries but any
>> libraries that are part of ports or other applications (e.g. the Xorg
>> libraries) would have been linked against the older library versions.
>> You really don't want to leave things that way.
>
> So, to be clear: a fresh ports tree and "portupgrade -af" after building and
> installing r195767+ should be enough to solve any problems? (installkernel,
> installworld, reboot, portupgrade -af)

But there won't be any problem until you do a "make delete-old-libs"
in /usr/src/, right ?

Olivier

>
> Regards,
> Thomas
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