WARNING: Validate your icu dependents.

[Bill Cole]

This is NOT a request for assistance or advice, just a warning from a 
fellow user of an issue you MAY run into this week that you should be 
aware of...

Recently the 'icu' port got updated and as a result, many dependents 
need updates after installing the new icu. Most ports will Just Work if 
you're installing prebuilt binaries or building everything from source. 
HOWEVER, if you (like me) have MacPorts worlds that support and/or are 
supported by installations of non-MacPorts packages (e.g. Perl modules 
lacking ports) you may find that you have weird failures after MacPorts 
upgrades because of some link problem deep in a call chain somewhere... 
If the failure involves non-mp pieces, rev-upgrade either won't catch it 
or won't fix it.

I've run into a few of these in the past 3 days, and rather than  doing 
careful analysis I'm currently just rebuilding a few things (e.g. Perl 
itself and all my non-mp modules) from source locally to clean it up. I 
needed to do the same with  Postfix, but only because I use a bunch of 
variants.

If you cannot afford to put in at least a few minutes of validation and 
maybe a few hours of rebuild, you may want to postpone your regularly 
scheduled sync/upgrade cycle until you can watch it more carefully.



-- 
Bill Cole
bill at scconsult.com or billcole at apache.org
(AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses)
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