Recent massive port update.

ajtiM lumiwa at gmail.com
Sat Feb 6 21:54:09 UTC 2010


On Saturday 06 February 2010 15:36:22 Miroslav Lachman wrote:
> Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 21:05:54 +0100
> >
> > Miroslav Lachman<000.fbsd at quip.cz>  wrote:
> >> Matthew Seaman wrote:
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> >>> On 06/02/2010 09:40, Heino Tiedemann wrote:
> >>>> Shouldn't there be an entry in UPDATING, that "jpeg" has to be
> >>>> rebuildet first?
> >>>>
> >>>> I rebuilded everything - but i have no idea about the order aof
> >>>> port reinstalling.
> >>>
> >>> Actually that's not necessary in this case entirely because the
> >>> commit was so large.  Every port that needs to be rebuilt because
> >>> it depends on libjpeg has had it's PORTREVISION bumped.  That means
> >>> that if you just do a 'portupgrade -a' or 'portmaster -a' the right
> >>> thing will happen automatically.
> >>
> >> No metter if there is revision bump or not, it should be in UPDATING
> >> as it was in case of jpeg-7.
> >>
> >> 20090719:
> >>     AFFECTS: users of graphics/jpeg
> >>     AUTHOR: dinoex at FreeBSD.org
> >>
> >>     The IJG jpeg library has been updated to version 7.0.  Please
> >> rebuild all ports that depend on it.
> >
> > No need, since it a port has a new version, a rebuild is expected.
> 
> Is expected, but if somebody are not using portmaster or portupgrade,
> simple upgrade of jpeg will break other ports and I think that in the
> case of jpeg (widely used library) there will be a lot of users asking
> "why my app XYZ is not working anymore".
> 
> So what was the reason to put UPDATING entry 20090719 for jpeg 7, if it
> is no longer needed for jpeg 8?
> 
> Miroslav Lachman
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And in my case, I use portmaster, rebuilding of QT33 and arts doesn't work and 
I screw many applications. Thank you for your hard work but I don't know why 
is a rush for something which doesn't work?

Mitja
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