Yet another pkg bug?

[Andrea Venturoli]

On 08/02/14 02:27, Bryan Drewery wrote:
> Agreed it is not a pkg problem, nor a portupgrade problem.
>
> libreoffice is not directly depending on libgcrypt so it was not
> rebuilt. Only direct dependencies are rebuilt. But this is not really
> the problem. The problem is that Libreoffice seems to be doing something
> special by building its own libxsltfilterlo.so into its own directory.
> So the libxslt rebuild had no idea about it. It's not a file actually
> provided by libxslt.
>
> # pkg info -l libxslt|grep /usr/local/lib
>          /usr/local/lib/libexslt.a
>          /usr/local/lib/libexslt.la
>          /usr/local/lib/libexslt.so
>          /usr/local/lib/libexslt.so.8
>          /usr/local/lib/libxslt.a
>          /usr/local/lib/libxslt.la
>          /usr/local/lib/libxslt.so
>          /usr/local/lib/libxslt.so.2
>
> Note the lack of libxsltfilterlo.so.
>
> I'd say the instructions were lacking. My guess is a small handfull of
> people realize what's going on here and none of the other committers do.
> So it's very likely that many UPDATING entries need special libreoffice
> care as well and have not had it documented. I.e., every dependency of
> libreoffice would require rebuilding libreoffice.
>
> I'm not sure what this program/ dir is, perhaps some cache. It would be
> safer to have it disabled so this special care is not needed.

Thanks for the explanation.


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	av.