On 9/12/2015 4:59 PM, John Marino wrote: > I just made a commit that will cause libc to be built with symbol > versions from now on. Among other benefits, this means that libc will > never be "bumped" again, so the library's name is frozen at /lib/libc.so.8. > > All third-party programs should continue to work (with a possible > exception of a program wrongly using a libc variable or function that > shouldn't have been exposed and which is no longer exposed). > > It is possible that a quickworld build is sufficient to upgrade. > However, this is neither tested nor recommended. You should plan on > your next build being the "full" build type just to be on the safe side. > > All dports "master" packages (4.4) built after this date will not > function on older systems that have not been upgraded past this commit: > http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/commitdiff/43a397d9530c74c94b1d6555fa851d394f2ed930 > > Consequently, when the next bulk build for "master" is published, the > current build will be moved from: > dragonfly:4.4:x86:64/LATEST > to > dragonfly:4.4:x86:64/OLD_LIBC > > This "OLD_LIBC" directory will be frozen and will remain in place until > DragonFly 4.4 is officially released. It is only for people that > haven't the time to upgrade to the latest master version, but still need > to install some new packages. > > When the new packages are available, it would be a good idea to > explicitly replace *ALL* packages on the master system. To do that, you > can use the "Bullet-proof upgrade technique" outlined here: > https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/howtos/HowToDPorts/#index4h1 > > Hopefully everything will go smoothly with this transition, but > understand that this is a pretty significant change to libc.
To follow up: The newly built packages have been uploaded to LATEST and the older packages have been moved to OLD_LIBC. Remember not to update packages from LATEST until your machine is on the current master. If you can't upgrade immediate, update your pkg configuration files to use OLD_LIBC repository until you can upgrade everything. Note that it will take some time for the packages to get uploaded to the mirrors; I just updated mirror-master. John
