From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 18 11:09:19 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3988E16A417 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:09:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kamikaze@bsdforen.de) Received: from mail.bsdforen.de (bsdforen.de [212.204.60.79]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDDE213C4E8 for ; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:09:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kamikaze@bsdforen.de) Received: from mobileKamikaze.norad (nat-wh-1.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de [129.13.72.169]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.bsdforen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20682405493; Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:40:10 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <47B9608A.40304@bsdforen.de> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:40:10 +0100 From: Dominic Fandrey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20080205) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yoshihiro Ota References: <36e46ac80802171226p6a18997ao21e03b626425695e@mail.gmail.com> <47B8A3B2.8090202@infracaninophile.co.uk> <1203283417.6223.3.camel@pclmills> <20080217212857.c4df5d25.ota@j.email.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <20080217212857.c4df5d25.ota@j.email.ne.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Atanas Gendov , oscartheduck@gmail.com Subject: Re: Problems with icu - 3.8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:09:19 -0000 Yoshihiro Ota wrote: > On Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:23:37 -0700 > James wrote: > >> On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 21:14 +0000, Matthew Seaman wrote: >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA256 >>> >>> Atanas Gendov wrote: >>>> Greetings to all from FreeBSD Ports!!! :) >>>> I have some problems with icu - 3.8. After portupgrade of icu and some >>>> others packages I can't start Gnome. Because of Gnome needs module from icu >>>> - 3.6. Unfortunately there is no new port for gdm which doesn't have depends >>>> on icu-3.6. >>> Lots of people are getting bitten by the effects of the bump in the >>> libicu* shlib ABI version numbers -- there really should be a note >>> in UPDATING about it. It affects all sorts of different packages -- >>> I've even got one system where it took out OpenLDAP. >> Do you know who to ask for the note? I was bitten by it, but fortunately there >> had just been a large thread in questions@ about it. It does seem to be a >> common issue. >> >> James > > > Why are so many people are bitten by this? Is that the jobs of port-upgrading > tool to safe copy these libraries to compat so that all programs using > the old libraries works? > > Hiro I detest this method of keeping programs working. It causes potentially vulnerable libraries to remain in use. I much prefer to run pkg_libchk -R (sysutils/bsdadminscripts) and rebuild the ports it lists as broken due to the change. I already advertised this solution in another thread about the icu problem on this list.