postfix +tls upgrade broken

[Blair Zajac]

Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
> On Apr 4, 2009, at 02:20, Rainer Müller wrote:
> 
>> On 2009-04-03 15:07, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>>> On Apr 2, 2009, at 7:01 PM, Rainer Müller wrote:
>>>> But in general, this is how the final update to openssl @1.0.0 will
>>>> go.
>>>> Every dependent need to be rebuild as usually for every upgrade. Just
>>>> that in this case it will affect many ports and will probably cause
>>>> much
>>>> confusion at first.
>>>>
>>>> I don't think there is a better solution currently than advising to
>>>> run
>>>> 'sudo port -R upgrade openssl' when it is released, even if it will
>>>> probably trigger a lot of unnecessary rebuilds.
>>>
>>> In the past, we have rev-bumped every port that we thought would need
>>> a rebuild when we've done something like this...
> 
> Or written it up as a hot problem, e.g.:
> 
> http://trac.macports.org/wiki/ProblemHotlist#Aportfailedtobuildupgradeorrunwithamessagereferringtolibintl.3.dylib 
> 
> 
> 
>> For the readline @5.2 -> @6.0 upgrade I added additional symlinks to the
>> old libreadline.5.x.dylib paths. I tested it before with the ports
>> installed on my machine and as it worked for all of them I decided to go
>> that way. Might just have been coincidence that the versions were still
>> compatible... Maybe not the best solution, but it saved a lot of hassle.
> 
> I've been wary of that, in fact. The only reason I know of for upstream 
> to use a new library version number is if it's not binary compatible 
> with the old version, so I would think creating such a symlink would 
> cause problems. Maybe in the case of readline there was something 
> special, but I wouldn't expect that to work generally.

Agreed.  It was lucky it worked, no telling which functions changed the ABI. 
See this for more information on library versioning:

http://apr.apache.org/versioning.html

Regards,
Blair

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