cvs commit: ports/archivers/dpkg Makefile ports/archivers/gtar

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at FreeBSD.org
Mon Aug 25 09:09:07 PDT 2003


On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 11:55, Tilman Linneweh wrote:
> * Joe Marcus Clarke [Mo, 25 Aug 2003 at 07:47 GMT]:
> > marcus      2003/08/24 22:41:38 PDT
> > 
> >   FreeBSD ports repository
> > 
> >   Modified files:
> [..]
> >   Log:
> >   Chase the libintl.so shared lib version.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thank you for doing the work.
> 
> Did you consider bumping PORTREVISIONs?
> The Porters Handbook suggests it, and imho it helps people to not screw up
> their system. (But I can see this is an edge case, since so many ports are
> involved).

I considered it, but immediately dismissed it.  Even though 175 ports
_explicitly_ depend on libintl, almost _all_ of them implicitly depend
on it.  Therefore, it was just easier to chase the shared lib, then
recommend users do a forced recursive upgrade to get all children.

Joe

> 
> Regards
> tilman
-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	marcus at FreeBSD.org
gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome

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