Yoshihiro Ota wrote:
On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:23:37 -0700
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 21:14 +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote:
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Atanas Gendov wrote:
Greetings to all from FreeBSD Ports!!! :)
I have some problems with icu - 3.8. After portupgrade of icu and some
others packages I can't start Gnome. Because of Gnome needs module from icu
- 3.6. Unfortunately there is no new port for gdm which doesn't have depends
on icu-3.6.
Lots of people are getting bitten by the effects of the bump in the
libicu* shlib ABI version numbers -- there really should be a note
in UPDATING about it. It affects all sorts of different packages --
I've even got one system where it took out OpenLDAP.
Do you know who to ask for the note? I was bitten by it, but fortunately there
had just been a large thread in questions@ about it. It does seem to be a
common issue.
James
Why are so many people are bitten by this? Is that the jobs of port-upgrading
tool to safe copy these libraries to compat so that all programs using
the old libraries works?
Hiro
I detest this method of keeping programs working. It causes potentially
vulnerable libraries to remain in use. I much prefer to run pkg_libchk -R
(sysutils/bsdadminscripts) and rebuild the ports it lists as broken due to
the change.
I already advertised this solution in another thread about the icu problem
on this list.
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