On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 09:12:08PM -0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2020-06-17, Marc Espie <es...@nerim.net> wrote: > > The only way you end up with broken installations is when porters don't do > > their jobs, that is they fail to bump a shared library or something like > > that. > > They do still break in some cases: > > libA depends on libB > someapp depends on libA, libB > > libB has a major bump. libA gets updated but someapp is missed > due to a mirror with an incomplete update. Now someapp wants old libB, > but libA wants new libB, resulting in breakage.
Ouchie... that one I can't do much about. :( > (There are also situations where some installed packages are broken > for part of a pkg_add -u run, though they do sort themselves out later - > I forget the details but I think it was something to do with the timing > of ldconfig runs, updates to things like glib2/pango often do this). ldconfig is run just before actually exec'ing anything that might depend on it. Have you run into the problem lately ? I think it's mostly gone with @tags, since it delays running most things until the end of pkg_add -u, so that things have actually settled down.
