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Re: upgrade - what will happen?



At Sun, 28 Apr 2019 11:02:30 +0200, Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
Subject: Re: upgrade - what will happen?
>
> When you upgrade, the old library versions stay around, so old
> packages continue to work -- with the exception of things depending on
> osabi, which might break.

Isn't there's one small caveat about old shared library versions?

Postinstall(8), which will be run by sysinst during an upgrade, or if
you do a manual upgrade and then similarly run "postinstall fix" as is
recommended, will remove "obsolete" files, including old system shared
libraries.

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