Specs for saving old shared libs

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Fri May 18 12:29:16 PDT 2007


Pav Lucistnik wrote:
> Doug Barton píše v c(t 17. 05. 2007 v 13:06 -0700:
> 
>> What might 
>> be useful in this regard is if someone were to start a new thread 
>> describing exactly what the desired behavior is, and ideally to 
>> include a description of how portupgrade does it now.
> 
> Just before old package deinstall, scan the list of files installed by
> old port (pkg_info -g). Match .so.X files under PREFIX/lib and any
> ldconfig'ed paths 1*), copy them away to /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg.

That sounds pretty straightforward. My first instinct is to implement 
this by matching the output of 'ldconfig -r', does that sound like 
what you're asking for?

> After installation of new port, match .so.X files again. If same
> filenames appear, remove old copies from /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg.
 >
> Finally, ldconfig -r /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg

Ok, that makes sense too. This doesn't sound too hard to implement, so 
I'll take a look at adding this as an option soon.

Doug

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