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Date:      Tue, 15 May 2001 11:44:49 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us>
To:        <daniel.fisher@vt.edu>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: pkg_update
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.32.0105151141460.60769-100000@mail.wolves.k12.mo.us>
In-Reply-To: <01051512270602.17969@psych.ward.vt.edu>

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On Tue, 15 May 2001, Daniel Fisher wrote:

> this seems to work well. Correct me if I'm wrong, but portupgrade
> will not work if you are upgrading to a port which produces a
> newer shared object.. So if your current version of png is
> libpng.so.4 & you compile the newest version which produces
> libpng.so.5 This will break any applications which were compiled
> to use libpng.so.4 Is that right? Or does portupgrade fix this as
> well?

I imagine it would break the old software, yes, unless the old library
were backwards compatible.  I have upgraded png a few times already
without any problem, but I'm not sure if I did a major version upgrade
at some point in time or just a minor.


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