Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 14:21:27 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Richard Todd <rmtodd@ichotolot.servalan.com> Subject: Re: HEADS-UP: New shared library versions coming soon Message-ID: <200507231421.28210.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <x7k6jiobpt.fsf@ichotolot.servalan.com> References: <1121952594.68685.27.camel@opus.cse.buffalo.edu> <20050722174802.GS39292@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> <x7k6jiobpt.fsf@ichotolot.servalan.com>
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--nextPart1462241.DMoyO6ND7Y Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 23 July 2005 05:27, Richard Todd wrote: > libchk (/usr/ports/sysutils/libchk) is a nice Python script that automates > the "ldd on each binary" bit and gives you a list of .sos that aren't bei= ng > used by anything. You do have to eyeball the list before doing a mass > purge of any unreferenced .sos, as there are some apps (Mozilla/Firefox is > one IIRC) which have .so files which are loaded by the program as needed > but which don't show up as fixed dependencies via ldd. Still, the libchk > list ought to at least give you a starting point. You could probably extend it to use /var/db/pkg/*/+CONTENTS to exclude stuf= f=20 like that (ie things explicitly referenced by a port). No, I don't have a patch to make it do this :) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1462241.DMoyO6ND7Y Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBC4czQ5ZPcIHs/zowRAnYVAJ98j6V1mu0R/ziyK1DCdejpbm8NvACdGxwr +Glwx84aPwrFi2q6D3yrvgM= =xt0L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1462241.DMoyO6ND7Y--
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