Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 21:11:08 +0000 From: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libarchive, lzma, and xz interaction Message-ID: <CAGFTUwNKnLAY4tHT-kC6z_8dV72GzvZA6FHebO2c=_1vV1NTGQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAN6yY1tN7r2zzWqyOF1VcuVkBaFDDLSq6dL9g92e_fCCYyHHXw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAGFTUwNsL7mxy50R==nnk3kuqHQhVt0wPMXA5DaVNPZjeZqZyw@mail.gmail.com> <CAN6yY1tN7r2zzWqyOF1VcuVkBaFDDLSq6dL9g92e_fCCYyHHXw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 7/2/11, Kevin Oberman <kob6558@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 11:32 PM, b. f. <bf1783@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 7:19 PM, Kevin Oberman <kob6558 at gmail.com> ... > And you were right about the sequence o events. Due to a bug in the > atkbd driver in 8.1 and 8.2 I installed 8.0-RELEASE and, after > installing a few critical ports (which must have pulled in xz), I > csuped RELENG_8, I applied the required patch (which has now been > MFCed), and built a stable system. Unfortunately, I now had xz and got > into the problems I reported. > > I am a bit disturbed to note that there is no entry in either > /usr/src/UPDATING or /usr/ports/UPDATING about lzma moving into the > base system and the need to re-install ports that had depended on the > xz port and delete xz. While googling for the problem I found many > reports of the problem with no solutions. A note in UPDATING (in this > case, probably both of them, but at least /usr/src) could have made > them easily resolved. Yes, this probably should have been mentioned in UPDATING. Oddly, it did make it into the 8.1 Release Notes. A complicating factor for those using packages from the FreeBSD build cluster is that the packages for 8* (i.e., packages-stable or packages-8-stable) are usually built on some version of the oldest supported security branch of 8, so for a period of time after the addition of xz to 8-stable those packages included an unnecessary dependency on archivers/xz for users of 8-stable, 8.1, and 8.1-stable. Fortunately, in this case, there probably wouldn't have been any adverse effects, other than a small waste of space and some confusion. b.
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