Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 16:55:23 +0100 From: Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> To: Will Andrews <will@csociety.org> Cc: freebsd-ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: WARNING: portupgrade considered harmful Message-ID: <200303011655.27995.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20030228194238.GL37397@procyon.firepipe.net> References: <3E5FB1F8.4050405@mail.flyingcroc.net> <20030228194238.GL37397@procyon.firepipe.net>
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On Friday 28 February 2003 20:42, Will Andrews wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 11:01:12AM -0800, Joe Kelsey wrote: > > Some time ago, the maintainers of the pkgtools slipped a new ability > > into portupgrade: the ability to silently move "obsolete" shared > > libraries into /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg. This so-called "feature" has > > caused me no end of trouble in the last few days. > > I have been asking knu why -u isn't a default option for quite a > long time. I always use -u and rarely have problems. That's not a serious thing to consider, it would get too many users too severely crippled software. See a related thread regarding packages for ports with Makefile-switches I started a few days ago, we could consider portupgrade to default to packages once such a thing is actually in place. -- Regards, Michael Nottebrock To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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