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