issues unveiled by devel/gettext

[Franci Nabalanci]

On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 12:43 PM, Freddie Cash <fjwcash at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze at bsdforen.de
> >wrote:
>
> > On 31/05/2010 19:08, Franci Nabalanci wrote:
> > > I have the same problem and my FreeBSD 8.0 release doesnn't work
> anymore.
> > I
> > > cannot do anything. It is possible to save this problem or better
> install
> > > different OS??
> >
> > A lot of stuff will start working again if you add the line:
> > libintl.so.8    libintl.so.9
> >
> > to your /etc/libmap.conf file. Note that this is just a temporal
> > workaround until you manage to rebuild the troublesome packages.
> >
> > This would be an excellent time to mention the wonderful -b options for
> portupgrade and portmaster, that will create a backup package of any ports
> that are upgraded, stored under /usr/ports/packages.  :)  If you run into
> any issues, it's a simple "pkg_delete -xi portname" and "pkg_add
> /usr/ports/packages/portname.tbz" process to roll-back to a known-good
> version.  :D
>
> There's also an option for both portupgrade and portmaster that tell it to
> save old libraries to /usr/local/compat/lib, so that applications that
> require the lib will continue to work, while you re-install/upgrade the
> other apps.
>
> Using ZFS snapshots on /usr/local and /var/db/pkg is also an option, as ZFS
> provides a snapshot-roll-back feature.
>
> IOW, this is not an "unsolvable mess" like some people claim every year.
>  :)
>
> Maybe is not "unsolvable mess" for you but it is for me.
I did what I did, what I red.
I made /etc/libmap.conf with what was mention above and when I run
portmaster devel/gettext I got:
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libintl.so.9" not found, required by
"gawk"

Thanks.

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> Freddie Cash
> fjwcash at gmail.com
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