In the last episode (Apr 22), Steve Franks said: > > It's much safer to just leave the libraries alone. Just because you > > upgraded libpng doesn't mean that your old gtk binary will stop working > > (assuming you are using "portupgrade" or "portmaster -w" which preserves > > <About to get flamed, I know> Untrue. Portupgrade deletes the old > version of the port by default. The PNG upgrade was a major PITA, because > I installed one new port that thought it had to have it. I'm sure 98% of > the ports I then had to upgrade would have still worked just fine even if > rebuilt against the old libpng.
Are you sure you're talking about portupgrade? From the manpage: -u --uninstall-shlibs Do not preserve old shared libraries. By default, portupgrade preserves shared libraries on uninstallation for safety. See the pkg_deinstall(1) manpage and check out the -P option for details. I've 400 MB of shared libs in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg as proof that it does this by default, too. I should probably clean that out someday :) > I think the complaint here is that the port dependencies system > frequently gives the impression/enforces the rule that new ports will > depend on whatever the most current version of everything is in the > ports tree at the time they were built, forcing sort of a perpetual > upgrade cycle. IMHO this is probably due to naive port maintainers > (such as myself) incorrectly pointing a port at libpng.5 instead of > any libpng, or libpng >= 5. Once the ports tree is 'poisoned' in this > fashion, there's really no going back. I'd sure vote for an audit of > this behavior as a summer of code project. I don't think the porter's handbook mentions the DEPENDS_* comparison operators at all, so unless you read (and understood) the ${deptype:L}-depends target in bsd.port.mk, you might not know it existed. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"