Re: db4, db41, and gift

Peter O'Gorman wrote:
> On Monday, September 30, 2002, at 12:40  AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
>
> > Why does db41-shlibs conflict with db4-shlibs? It wouldn't need a new 
> > name if it did. And if it replaces db4-shlibs, gift needs new 
> > dependencies.
> I thought this error was fixed for gift in cvs. (and indeed when I look 
> in 10.2/unstable it seems to be so).
> db41 and db4 are binary incompatible, the new name is necessary to avoid 
> people having to rebuild everything linked against libdb-4 (although I 
> made a mistake at first and committed it as db4 to the 10.2/unstable 
> tree, that is fixed now).
OK, so I had the problem because I did a "update-all", which tried to 
install db41 before updating gift. And the Conflicts was only with the 
bogus version of db4-shlibs? So it reduces to another one of those cases 
where the automatic update-all doesn't work.
--
Martin





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