Alan: The need to worry about ARC obviously doesn't apply to things in spec-files-extra. Though do be warned if you upgrade to a newer version that *breaks* API, then you might find various things in the OpenSolaris stack also break and may need to also be rebuilt.
Brian >> You saved me a lot of time messing with Imagemagick, prototypes and what not. >> You mentioning ARC made me search for the keyword 'Imagemagick' on >> www.opensolaris.org and I came across this ARC case: >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/caselog/2007/316/mail >> >> In this case is mentioned, and I quote: >> "Summary >> This project moves ImageMagick, a2ps, psutils from /usr/sfw to /usr. >> This project upgrades ImageMagick from 5.4.7 to 6.3.4 >> This project seeks micro/patch binding." >> >> So I guess we have to stay with 6.3.4 > > Updates to new versions that don't change interfaces (i.e. don't add commands, > public API functions in libraries, or command line options to existing > programs) > can be made without issue. Updates to new versions that change interfaces > can be made after filing a simple ARC fast-track. >
