On Monday 15 June 2009 02:55:09 Dominic Fandrey wrote: > Sorry for the late reply, this was auto-sorted into the ports@ mails > and drowned there. > > Boris Samorodov wrote:
> > As I understand pkg_upgrade does not preserve old libraries at > > /usr/local/lib/compat? > > That's true. I consider this common approach a security risk. It is a service interruption to delete libraries that are still used and this can also lead to security problems. However, pkg_upgrade cannot ever hope to fix this problem, because the buildservers do not unconditionally rebuild packages that mention the upgraded port in LIB_DEPENDS, therefore it is better to leave these shared libraries around. > To ensure that you get the newest packages wipe > /usr/ports/packages/All. Erm, the download time associated with that approach doesn't really speed up things, nor does it guarantee that you will have working binaries if the port maintainer forgot to version bump a port. -- Mel _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
