ICU sweeping upgrade: bug or feature?

[Bryan Drewery]

> On Feb 9, 2014, at 7:31, Andrea Venturoli <ml at netfence.it> wrote:
> 
>> On 02/08/14 18:08, Warren Block wrote:
>> 
>> This may very well come back to bite you in the future,
> 
> Well, as I said, this is just a temporary fix for something that, IMVHO, shouldn't have broken in the first place.
> 
> 
> 
>> causing
>> mysterious failures long after you've forgotten you did it.
> 
> I periodically clean /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg, so it shouldn't be long before the links and the libraries they are aliasing are both gone.
> 
> However, what is different here from what portupgrade usually does (i.e. leaving old libraries in that compat dir)?
> 

That is a portupgrade feature. Which tool did you use?


> 
> 
>> Running pkg_libchk [-q] after port upgrades has worked well for me.  It
>> is from sysutils/bsdadminscripts by Dominic Fandrey, and easily detects
>> applications that are using old libraries and should be rebuilt.  It
>> worked this time also.
> 
> I normally use sysutils/libchk. I never tried pkg_libchk, but I'm curious. What is the advantage of one over the other?
> 
> 
> 
> bye & Thanks
>    av.
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