Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Spider <spider@g.o>
To: Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu@××××××××××××××××.edu>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] QA question wrg. GRP
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 02:58:17
Message-Id: 20040205035814.2a7e4e07.spider@gentoo.org
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2 On Wed, 4 Feb 2004 18:50:57 -0800
3 Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu@××××××××××××××××.edu> wrote:
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8 > Why not have the openssl-0.9.7 binary package include the 0.9.6
9 > library? This is what results when you update openssl 0.9.6 to 0.9.7
10 > using the latest ebuilds.
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12 You're solving the wrong problem. Thats for -forwards- compability. But
13 how should deptracking be done on a case where the system you install
14 the binary on doesnt have a "new" enough library, so the case is "it
15 would build against it perfectly" but the runtime version is stricter?
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23 See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information.
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