On Thursday, September 30, 2010 12:31:16 Andreas K. Huettel wrote: > Just by accident I noticed during emerge something that may lead to major > confusion: the just stabilized openssl-1.0.0-r3 contains the following > code:
fix your e-mail client. its line wrapping is broken.
> pkg_postinst() {
> ...
> has_version ${CATEGORY}/${PN}:0.9.8 && return 0
> preserve_old_lib_notify /usr/$(get_libdir)/lib{crypto,ssl}.so.0.9.8
> }
>
> However, portage in my case first updated openssl (slot 0) from 0.9.8 to
> this version, _printing out the preserve_old_lib_notify message_, and then
> afterwards installed openssl-0.9.8o-r2.
are you sure openssl-1 didnt also take care of preserving the library ? look
at the contents of openssl-1.
> Net result: if I had relied on the elog messages alone, I would have messed
> up my system by deleting the required files from openssl:0.9.8...
you may have broken one or two *binary only* packages, but this hardly
classifies as "messed up my system".
-mike
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