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

On 8/14/25 16:20, Dag-Erling Smørgrav 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.
> 

I have some WIP to make it configurable per-repository so that we can 
enable it by default only for pkgbase repositories to avoid too much of 
a disruption.  IMO a prerequisite to enabling it by default is also 
making the pkg it archives them into configurable (and per-repo), so 
that we can maintain a clean separation between base-archived-libs and 
ports-archived-libs if both end up enabled.

markj also noted that the pkg solver has a little bit of a flaw here, in 
that it doesn't take into account BACKUP_LIBRARIES when it develops its 
plan.  The local pkg-removal-oops could've been mitigated with it if pkg 
would have counted its backup to another package as maintaining the 
shlib dependency.  Resolving that wouldn't be strictly necessary, though.

Thanks,

Kyle Evans