Re: Note: libutil.so bump from main-n279246-0c381b7f0570

On Aug 14, 2025, at 14:20, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <des@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> writes:
>> pkgbase updates do not have a "delete-old-libs" like
>> step to do later as far as I know. The old libraries
>> were not preserved.
> 
> See BACKUP_LIBRARIES in pkg.conf(5).  We should consider making it the
> default.

On the amd64 system I've long had:

# grep BACKUP /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf
BACKUP_LIBRARIES=true

On the aarch64 system I've long had:

# grep BACKUP /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf
BACKUP_LIBRARIES=true

I still ended up without the 3 libraries
in each context:

libutil.so.9
libcrypto.so.30
libssl.so.30

But there might be a distinction for such if 'pkg install'
is used to progress instead of using 'pkg upgrade'?

If it had left in place the 3 older files, there is still
the question of the standard way of later cleaning out the
old versions: no delete-old-libs

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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com