[Slackbuilds-users] [ANNOUNCE]: Slackware 13.37 rc1 and SBo

[Robby Workman]

On Mon, 14 Mar 2011 14:12:18 -0400
T3slider <t3slider at gmail.com> wrote:

> Bumping the version number for every package on SBo would be the
> equivalent of doing `slackpkg clean-system` and recompiling each
> third-party application from slackbuilds.org -- which would be the
> standard advice for anyone having such troubles with multiple
> packages. Otherwise, applications that may be ABI-compatible with
> dependencies from Slackware 13.37 would need to maintain the same
> build number while others that would require a recompile would need a
> bump. Determining which ones would need this is too much effort in my
> opinion, especially when you get into issues like an application
> breaking not because it isn't ABI-compatible with Slackware packages,
> but because it isn't ABI-compatible with an SBo dependency that
> breaks with new Slackware.
> 
> You can take your chances running old 13.1-compiled apps on 13.37 and
> recompile those that are broken, or clean-system and rebuild them all
> (`ls /var/log/packages/*_SBo` would get a list). Of course you would
> need to build them in the right order which would involve reading
> READMEs or using build queues. In the end, I don't think bumping
> versions has *any* benefit that I can see and it's certainly more work
> anyway.


Good summary there too.  

-RW
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