From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 8 21:12:24 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BF9A16A421 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 21:12:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB86513C480 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 21:12:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 828501A3C19 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 14:12:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [192.168.1.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17C6B511B4 for ; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 17:12:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 05EE9C219; Fri, 8 Jun 2007 17:12:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 17:12:23 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: User Questions Message-ID: <20070608211222.GA48994@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20070608193955.GA1860@saltmine.radix.net> <20070608154853.9b8e3fc9.wmoran@potentialtech.com> <20070608170345.4134.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070608170345.4134.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Subject: Re: Increase in the number of ports: upgrade xorg to 7.2... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2007 21:12:24 -0000 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