On 11 Dec 2012 15:55, "Bryan Drewery" <[email protected]> wrote: > > (As maintainer) I'm proposing to make -w the default for portmaster. > This will preserve old shared libraries when upgrading. This helps 2 things: > > 1. Prevents a broken system during upgrades > 2. Prevents a broken system after upgrading for ports that did not get a > PORTREVISION bump from a shared library update. > > You have certainly ran into this problem with large library updates such > as png, pcre, openssl, etc. > > Portupgrade has always done this as default, and I have never seen any > problems arise from it. It also cleans up prevents duplicated library > versions. If portmaster is not already doing this, I will ensure it does. > > You could then use pkg_libchk to rebuild any lingering ports if you > wanted to ensure your system was using the latest. Then cleanout the > preserved shared library. > > Of course there will be a way to stick to the old default of not > preserving the libraries.
Yes, this is a great idea. Chris _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
