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Date:      Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:57:05 -0800
From:      Will Andrews <will@csociety.org>
To:        Tilman Linneweh <tilman@arved.de>
Cc:        Joe Kelsey <joek@mail.flyingcroc.net>, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: WARNING: portupgrade considered harmful
Message-ID:  <20030228195705.GN37397@procyon.firepipe.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030228195747.GA27650@huckfinn.arved.de>
References:  <3E5FB1F8.4050405@mail.flyingcroc.net> <20030228195747.GA27650@huckfinn.arved.de>

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On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 08:57:47PM +0100, Tilman Linneweh wrote:
> > The portupgrade maintainers have perpetrated a disaster in the making on 
> > a lot of unsuspecting people.  I recommend that everyone edit their 
> > /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf files and add -u to the default portupgrade 
> > switches to prevent this from happening.  You may also need to audit all 
> > of your binaries for stale library references.
> 
> This is IMHO not a fault of portupgrade but how bsd.port.mk detects LIB_DEPENDS.
> It checks if the library is in ld's path. This works as long as this path does not
> contain directories with libraries not installed by ports.  

You are right, of course, that bsd.port.mk's dependency mechanism
is faulty.  But it should be fixed before the portupgrade
obsolete shlibs behavior is enabled.

[Note to casual observers:  This is not as easy as it sounds!]

Regards,
-- 
wca

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