HEADS UP: xorg upgrade plans

[Thierry Thomas]

Le Lun  7 mai 07 à 22:58:50 +0200, Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org>
 écrivait :

> The other problem is that if you're going to automatically update all
> the dependencies for a port, you need to upgrade all the stuff that
> depends on them as well.  For example the gettext upgrade got triggered
> on my laptop by upgrading something the used gmake.  The result was that
> virtually nothing outside the base worked any more.  Saving the shared
> library would have prevented this and allowed a more graceful upgrade
> over a few weeks.  The fact that a basic desktop setup takes days to
> build on fairly fast hardware seems to be an indication that we need a
> workaround here.  There are other possible solutions, but saving copied
> of libraries seems to be the accepted one at the moment.

For this kind of upgrades, it's possible to add

libgettextpo.so.1	libgettextpo.so.3
libintl.so.6		libintl.so.8

in your /etc/libmap.conf. Just delete these lines after the storm...
-- 
Th. Thomas.
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