On Monday 27 July 2009 14:52:04 Doug Barton wrote: > Jason J. Hellenthal wrote: > > If you pkg_delete -r that will remove every package that depends on jpeg. > > This is not the right way of just getting rid of jpeg considering it > > involves the complete almost full re-installation of the entire system > > manually. > > > > A better route to upgrade would be: pkg_delete -f jpeg-\* > > reinstall the new jpeg and then portmaster -r jpeg-\* > > There is no need to do the pkg_delete first, and in fact I do not > recommend it. 'portmaster -r jpeg-' will accomplish what you want to > do on its own. > > On the other hand, since just about every X-related binary links to > libjpeg you may want to consider using 'portmaster -w jpeg-' instead. > That will update you to jpeg-7 but leave the old library in > /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg. That way things linked against the old > library will still work and at some point in the future you can delete > the old library when everything (or almost everything) has been > updated in the natural course of events.
Unfortunately, that can lead to problems as well. I don't have the precise error anymore, but it is possible for programs to be linked to two different libjpeg's and fail the assertion that (paraphrased) "foo wants JPEG_70 API yet JPEG_62 API available". This was me trying to start kde, while the complete upgrade did not finish yet. -- 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"
