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From: Ian Fox <ian@×××××.ca>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] offtopic: libpng upgrade
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 20:04:15
Message-Id: CAG9pjSN9Ui6maehbvJbXbXZ39Sd21YFtRxxCze7G6xwStX6j1Q@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-hardened] offtopic: libpng upgrade by "Tóth Attila"
1 While this is only a temporary solution untill old packages start using
2 libpng1.5, emering libpng-1.4.8-r2, since it's in a 1.4 slot, fixed all of
3 the compile errors for me, and kept my 1.5. I don't know if there were any
4 issues with that version, but I have not run into any.
5
6 On 22 September 2011 15:23, "Tóth Attila" <atoth@××××××××××.hu> wrote:
7
8 > I've suspected, that it won't be a torch-light procession.
9 > But reality exceeded my expectations.
10 > Around 60 packages failed out of approx 100! I've followed the ebuild's
11 > advice, that I leave the old library in place and revdep all packages
12 > linked to it.
13 > Acutally it would be better to remove the old library immediately, because
14 > a bunch of packages still tried to use -lpng14 for linking. In those case
15 > removing the old libs seems to help most of the time. But it will take
16 > another day to roll over the packages.
17 > Of course some packages will still fail. But it could spare me a day of
18 > useless compiles failing at the end while linking if I would have removed
19 > the old library for the first time.
20 > --
21 > dr Tóth Attila, Radiológus, 06-20-825-8057
22 > Attila Toth MD, Radiologist, +36-20-825-8057
23 >
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