Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 16:27:01 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> Cc: Simon Marlow <simonm@smarlow.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, arch@freebsd.org, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Subject: Re: Cleaning old packages (was: Package system flaws?) Message-ID: <3D2B7144.AA93AAB1@mindspring.com> References: <20020709161953.GA69779@lpt.ens.fr> <XFMail.20020709124717.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20020709171417.GA69932@lpt.ens.fr> <m0ptxw3bog.fsf@sm.dnsalias.com> <20020709210911.GA248@lpt.ens.fr>
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Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > So I think both the port, and the dependency, should carry some sort > of versioning information. The port should say which versions of the > dependency it's compatible with, and the dependency should say which > earlier versions are safe to upgrade from. We used to put these things called "minor version numbers" on shared libraries, back in the pre-ELF days. They were removed when ELF came in. The reason given was $REASON ...oops... sorry... looks like that variable still doesn't expand. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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