Marcin Cieslak <sa...@saper.info> writes: > I have updated some binary packages using pkg(8) but neglected to > rebuild the world and my favourite web browsers no longer started > complaining about the undefined symbol __memcpy_chk@FBSD_1.8 > > Would that be a good idea to add that information to the Handbook and > possible bump FreeBSD_version and add this info to UPDATING?
The purpose of UPDATING is to document changes that break backward compatibility, i.e. running old binaries on a newer world. What happened here is that you tried to run newer binaries on an older world, an issue of _forward_ compatibility, which we've never promised. Besides, an entry in UPDATING wouldn't have helped you since your source tree predated the change that would have added it. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@freebsd.org
