Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 16:20:47 -0400 From: "Mikhail T." <mi+thun@aldan.algebra.com> To: Bryan Drewery <bdrewery@FreeBSD.org>, knu@idaemons.org Cc: office@freebsd.org Subject: portupgrade and ICU libraries Message-ID: <518D569F.50404@aldan.algebra.com>
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Gentlemen!
Every time I do an upgrade, I get bitten by the same problem -- all of the
software linked with libraries installed by devel/icu stops working.
Today I finally understood why... Although portupgrade duly backs up the old
libraries under lib/compat/pkg, it only preserves the files (such as
libicutu.so.48.1.1), and not the symbolic links (such as libicutu.so.48).
The proper fix for this problem should include both:
1. portupgrade should ensure, the library.so./VERSION/ continues to exist --
even when that in itself is a symlink
2. icu port should install library.so./VERSION/ as the file -- rather than a
symlink to library.so./VERSION/./MINOR/./MICRO/, as it currently does
Even if the icu-maintainers (CC-ed) change the icu port do comply with the 2.,
there may still be other ports, that are not so compliant, so portupgrade needs
to implement 1. anyway...
Yours,
-mi
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