HEADS-UP: New shared library versions coming soon

[Kris Kennaway]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:29:54AM -0400, Ken Smith wrote:

> Since support for this is new, what needs to be done now will be worse
> than what we will be doing down the road.  Tomorrow we will bump the
> shared library version numbers in both RELENG_6 and HEAD by one so that
> they differ from the version numbers currently in RELENG_5.  Then some
> time a bit after the 6.0-RELEASE is finished we will bump all the
> version numbers in HEAD again.
> 
> It will take a while for the fallout from this version bump to
> propagate.  People who cvsup/rebuild existing systems should not be
> impacted immediately - you will still have the older library versions
> present on your systems.  However it will take time for the pre-built
> packages provided by the portmgr folks to be rebuilt, loaded onto the
> FTP servers, and propagate out to the mirrors.

Based on this I'm going to hold off on uploading the
packages-7-current/ packages since they'd have to be replaced ASAP
anyway.  In the meantime, people can use packages on HEAD by setting
PACKAGESITE to use the packages-6-current/ packages, which should
almost all work fine on HEAD.

Kris
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