[Slackbuilds-users] What packages do you upgrade?

[Chris ABELA]

>> 2011/6/16 Chris ABELA <chris.abela at maltats.com>:
>>> 3. Upgrade them but do not bother with any other packages even if they
>>>were
>>
>> I got for that all the time.
>>
>> --
>> Ozan, BSc, BEng

> Well, if you upgrade a library, you might need to rebuild the packages
> that depend on it.
> This all depends on how big the change is in the lib - and how
> upstream developers took care of that...

> For instance, if you upgrade libxyz for 1.2.1 to 1.2.2 and upstream
> maintained compatibility, everything will be OK.
> But a change from 1.2.1 to 2.0.0 sounds like a major upgrade, with a
> new version of the shared object and might intruduce compatibility
> problems.

> My personal experience:
> - read the changelog of the upgrades package from upstream to find out
> why they released the new version. If they are responsible persons,
> the warn about possible impacts.
> - run "ldd <your_program>" after the upgrade and check for errors
> - test <your_program> - especially the functionality handled by libxyz
> if possible.
> - try at least to build <your_program> and see if it complains about
> libxyz. If it does, you might even send an e-mail to <your_program>
> developers telling them what you found out, or check their forum,
> mailing list etc. There might be a patch in their source repo already.

> This is all a lot of fun, but it takes some time. :)

> --
> Niels Horn

Thanks to all who replied and/or pondered on my query.