Comments on: Why I love Gentoo http://blog.arithm.com/2008/06/30/why-i-love-gentoo/ Software. Politics. Tinfoil hat conjecture. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:08:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andrew http://blog.arithm.com/2008/06/30/why-i-love-gentoo/comment-page-1/#comment-1132 Andrew Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:53:39 +0000 http://blog.arithm.com/?p=198#comment-1132 Or, better yet, use a binary distro that will ship the updated packages *with* the update :-) Or, better yet, use a binary distro that will ship the updated packages *with* the update :-)

]]> By: SaigonNezumi (Kevin) http://blog.arithm.com/2008/06/30/why-i-love-gentoo/comment-page-1/#comment-1127 SaigonNezumi (Kevin) Tue, 01 Jul 2008 07:40:56 +0000 http://blog.arithm.com/?p=198#comment-1127 Interesting post, we all hate to see this message :-) @Donnie, okay now why did I not hear about the preserve-libs feature? :-) Interesting post, we all hate to see this message :-)

@Donnie, okay now why did I not hear about the preserve-libs feature? :-)

]]> By: Donnie Berkholz http://blog.arithm.com/2008/06/30/why-i-love-gentoo/comment-page-1/#comment-1124 Donnie Berkholz Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:55:16 +0000 http://blog.arithm.com/?p=198#comment-1124 Glad to hear the documentation was useful to you. It's not really a screwup, it's because upstream changed their ABI so any packages using the old version of the library won't find the new one till you recompile them. Fortunately, the new portage 2.2 will even include support for keeping the old libs around with FEATURES=preserve-libs so things will very rarely break like this. You'll still need to rebuild eventually, but not immediately. Glad to hear the documentation was useful to you. It’s not really a screwup, it’s because upstream changed their ABI so any packages using the old version of the library won’t find the new one till you recompile them.

Fortunately, the new portage 2.2 will even include support for keeping the old libs around with FEATURES=preserve-libs so things will very rarely break like this. You’ll still need to rebuild eventually, but not immediately.

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