Jordon wrote: > I have current running on some machines and multiple times a week I > will update them by booting bsd.rd and doing the (u) option (i think > that is the ‘proper’ way to update to the latest current base system). > > I will occasionally update all the packages I have installed by doing > a ‘pkg_add -u’ as root. Based on the output, it is going through the > packages, checking for newer versions, and updating if there is one. > It then prints a “pkgname-oldver->newver” string. The thing is, a lot > of the time the old version and new version is the same. What does > this mean? A slight tweak to a makefile or something that wasn’t > significant enough to rev the version number? Some date discrepancy > with the mirror i am pulling it from? I know it’s a small thing, but > it really has me puzzled.
It typically means that one of the libraries that the package depends on has been updated. This can be either a system library (included in the base system) or a third-party library (installed as a package). Because its dependencies are updated, the binary has to be relinked. For what it's worth, this is also why you will see warnings like the one below if you run a binary that is out-of-sync with your libraries: > WARNING: symbol(foo) size mismatch, relink your program
