On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Johan Hendriks <joh.hendriks_at_gmail.com> wrote: > allan_at_stokes.ca schreef: >> >> However, programs such as startx and portupgrade are failing with the >> message "libz.so.5 not found". I know I can fix this with an evil >> symlink, but that doesn't seem right, and what else is broken? Is there >> not a facility in portupgrade to scan my live dependencies and warn me of >> breakage? I have not encountered such a beast in my gleanings to date. > > What you probably did is make delete-old-libs. > This deletes the old 8.x libs that where used by your ports. > What you need to do is rebuild all your ports. > > That way they get linked to the proper libs again. > > The next time when you go from one major to another major number eg from 7 > to 8 or from 8 to 9 and so on, is to do the make delete-old-libs step later. > Then after upgrading, rebuild all your ports, they still work with the old > libs. > Once the ports are rebuild against the newer libs then do the make > delete-old-libs step. > > This is not nessacery when going from a minor number to amother minor > number. eg from 8.1 to 8.2 and so on. In general yes.. but there have been occasions when this was required with libz... Cheers, -GarrettReceived on Tue Nov 29 2011 - 07:54:34 UTC
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