Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 11:53:31 -0400 From: Brandon Allbery <allbery.b@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pkg does bad things after upgrade from 8.4 to 9.3 Message-ID: <CAKFCL4X_y0BFBwXoH0dn5usHZ6jy73Z71ODQAtW13d-qzQsNOw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150909154521.GW23144@manor.msen.com> References: <20150908175303.GP23144@manor.msen.com> <1441745722.12994.59.camel@michaeleichorn.com> <7A1CD302-0428-4068-ACD9-146C5E03802E@ultra-secure.de> <20150909154521.GW23144@manor.msen.com>
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On Wed, Sep 9, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Michael R. Wayne <freebsd07@wayne47.com> wrote: > Note that NONE of this explains why pkg would delete ANYTHING Because it can't keep track of multiple versions of (say) gettext for different packages? If you upgrade something that requires a newer gettext, you must either upgrade everything else that uses gettext or remove the things that can only use the old one. This same pain is visible in other package systems --- for example, ask someone on debian unstable (or, occasionally, testing) who tries to install/upgrade something and watches it ask to remove their entire system because it was built against a newer libc. If you use packages, you need to upgrade the entire package set as a unit, not piecemeal. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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