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HEADS UP: gettext port update on FreeBSD

Posted by Hemos on from the upgrade dept.

Dan writes "FreeBSD's Joe Marcus Clarke has committed an update to the gettext port to 0.12.1 on FreeBSD. GNU `gettext' is an important step for the GNU Translation Project, as it is an asset on which we may build many other steps. This package offers to programmers, translators, and even users, a well integrated set of tools and documentation. Specifically, the GNU `gettext' utilities are a set of tools that provides a framework to help other GNU packages produce multi-lingual messages."

2 of 48 comments (clear)

  1. Important ! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is _recommended_ people install sysutils/portupgrade then do:

    portupgrade -rf gettext -m BATCH=yes

    to upgrade gettext and all of the ports that depend on it. However, if
    you use portupgrade to preserve old shared libraries (i.e. you do not
    run portupgrade -u), then you do not _have_ to do the full recursive
    update. However, you may run into problems later on if you hold off on
    doing this.

  2. Re:Ok ? by Fweeky · · Score: 4, Informative

    It means any port which uses it needs to be updated too (unless you use portupgrade and have it preserve old libraries), and that's quite a lot. Not sure what it's doing here though ;)

    FreeBSD was using 0.11.5 before this change, btw.