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Date:      Fri, 8 Jun 2007 17:12:23 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Increase in the number of ports: upgrade xorg to 7.2...
Message-ID:  <20070608211222.GA48994@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070608170345.4134.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net>
References:  <20070608193955.GA1860@saltmine.radix.net> <20070608154853.9b8e3fc9.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20070608170345.4134.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net>

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On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 05:07:25PM -0400, Gerard wrote:
> On June 08, 2007 at 03:48PM Bill Moran wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > It's not an assumption, its OPTIMISM!
> 
> That reminds me of an optimist who fell off of a fifty story building.
> As he passed each floor on the way down, he yelled, "So, so far!"
> 
> Seriously, I hope you are right. I believe it was 'gettext' that was
> updated a short time age. That update caused me all sorts of
> dependency problems. My shell, bash, would no longer work, etc.
> Over a hundred ports had to be updated to get everything back on an
> even keel. That is the sort of problem I am worried about. Hopefully,
> it won't happen.

FYI, if you'd used an upgrade tool like portupgrade it would have been
seamless because portupgrade keeps the old library version around for
precisely this reason.

Kris



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