Pkg 1.3.7 out. Special handling recommended to avoid reinstalls.

[Hasse Hansson]

On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:27:52AM -0500, Bryan Drewery wrote:

> Pkg 1.3.7 is now released. The port is updated. pkg.FreeBSD.org packages
> are now published with fixed shared libraries.
> 
> It was found that 'pkg update -f' may be required as well.
> 
> Here are the updated instructions:
> 
> - Binary package users should run 'pkg update -f' and 'pkg check -Ba'
> after upgrading to pkg-1.3.7 and before updating any other packages.
> This avoids needing to reinstall anything not needed due to changed
> shared libraries.
>    For binary package users:
>     # pkg install ports-mgmt/pkg
>     # pkg update -f
>     # pkg check -Ba
>     # pkg upgrade
>    For port users:
>     # portsnap fetch update
>     # make -C /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/pkg build deinstall install clean
>     # pkg check -Ba
> - People building packages for serving to other systems need to rebuild
>   all packages with 1.3.7.
> 
> 
> The previous announcement explaining this in more detail is at
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports-announce/2014-August/000086.html
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> Bryan Drewery
> 

Hello.

root at ymer:/usr/ports # uname -a
FreeBSD ymer.thorshammare.org 10.0-STABLE FreeBSD 10.0-STABLE #0 r270322: Fri Aug 22 22:54:03 CEST 2014     hasse at ymer.thorshammare.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/YMER  i386

Mixed environment ports and packages.
Mission completed without a hitch.

Regards Hasse

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