portupgrade error with 7.0-BETA1

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Mon Oct 29 13:04:11 PDT 2007


Diane Bruce wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 11:38:26PM +0100, Kris Kennaway wrote:
>> Marc UBM Bocklet wrote:
>>> On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 18:45:59 +0100
>>> Marc "UBM" Bocklet <ubm at u-boot-man.de> wrote:
>>>
> ...
>>> A tip from Diane Bruce (db at freebsd.org) did the trick:
>>>
>>> ----
>>>
>>> This one bit me as well. It's an obsolete library (libthr) in the
>>> binary, Recompile ruby18 and problem will go away.  You'll find other
>>> programs will do this too, but a lot of them disapear after doing a
>>> portupgrade.
>>>
>>> ----
>> ...which is a necessary part of any upgrade to a new branch.
>>
> 
> Just to keep it clear. ;-) I always upgrade my portupgrade manually
> after a branch, but his problems sounded like he had not. What I am
> getting bit with are things like:
> 
> -rw-------  1 db  wheel  1056768 Oct 28 23:12 xfce4-mixer-plugin.core
> -rw-------  1 db  wheel  1159168 Oct 28 23:12 xfdesktop.core
> -rw-------  1 db  wheel  1024000 Oct 28 23:12 xfce-mcs-manager.core
> -rw-------  1 db  wheel   978944 Oct 28 23:12 xscreensaver-gl-hel.core
> -rw-------  1 db  wheel  1032192 Oct 28 23:03 xfce4-session.core
> 
> All due to obsolete libs. Since there was a gnome import lately, updating
> now seemed a good idea.

What do you mean by obsolete libs?  The portupgrade -fa should have 
fixed precisely that ;)

Kris



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