Date: Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:06:21 -0500 From: Peter Clark <clarkp@mtmary.edu> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dependency confusion Message-ID: <4A4CF71D.5050407@mtmary.edu> In-Reply-To: <20090702164809.GB4205@dan.emsphone.com> References: <4A4CD041.5020006@mtmary.edu> <20090702164809.GB4205@dan.emsphone.com>
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Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jul 02), Peter Clark said: >> I have a number of ports installed on my 7.2Release box. When I issue >> pkg_info I see that I have both db41-4.1.25_4 and db46-4.6.21.4 installed. >> Is there an easy way to see which program is linked to which db? Is this >> some sort of redundant listing and I really only have db4.6 installed or >> can you have both side by side? My real concern is about which db backend >> my cyrus-imap-23 is linked against. > > All the db* ports install files with the version number embedded in them, so > you can have multiple versions installed without conflicts. "ldd > /path/to/exe" will tell you which library a given binary is linked with, and > you can run "pkg_info -R 'db4*'" to determine which ports depend on which > versions of db. > Thanks Dan and Bill. Dan, ldd and pkg_info -R did the trick. I really appreciate it. Peter
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