Saving old shared libs (Was: Re: HEADS UP: xorg upgrade plans)

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Thu May 17 20:35:27 UTC 2007


On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 01:06:02PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote:

> At the same time, I think it's probably worthwhile to examine what the 
> goals of the ports system are in this regard. If the goal is to always 
> provide a fail-safe upgrade path for users then perhaps we should be 
> talking about moving that support into the ports infrastructure, 
> rather than talking about adding it to all the different upgrade tools.

This is true, and some first steps are already in progress.

Kris


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