A cvsup without libm.so.2 ?

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Thu Dec 30 16:39:51 PST 2004


On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 01:15:34PM +0100, a.degroot at science.ru.nl wrote:
> I'm updating some desktop machines here that went through the 5.3-BETA
> phase and hence have a libm.so.2 as well as a libm.so.3. Since there's no
> real reason to have a libm.so.2 (is there?), I'm trying to get rid of all
> references to it [1]. portupgrade -af mostly does the job, but I'm sort of
> stuck with cvsup. It's still binary-only, isn't it? The current packages
> of cvsup still link to libm.so.2, which is somewhat annoying. In
> particular, clean installs of 5.3 can't run cvsup. Can we get a
> libm.so.2-free cvsup sometime?

You may easily need libm.so.2 for running other 5.3 binaries on
6-CURRENT.  I would move libm.so.2 to /usr/lib/compat and keep on running
the cvsup you have now.
 
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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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