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Date:      Mon, 04 May 2015 21:31:08 -0500
From:      Mark Felder <feld@FreeBSD.org>
To:        freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: THANK YOU
Message-ID:  <1430793068.270573.262714509.117A4090@webmail.messagingengine.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150504202808.GA99066@thebighonker.lerctr.org>
References:  <20150504202808.GA99066@thebighonker.lerctr.org>

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On Mon, May 4, 2015, at 15:28, Larry Rosenman wrote:
> Just a quick note to the pkg(1) team of thanks.....
> 
> Had a portmaster upgrade of ICU cause grief because folks were linking to 
> an OLD shlib (.so.53).  pkg shlib to the rescue, recompiled all 8 ports
> that referred to it, and poof problem solved. 
> 
> The old pkg_* tools would have been a PITA to find all the refs. 
> 
> Thanks for a GREAT set of tools. 
> 
> 

FYI, on a non-pkg server you should keep the sysutils/bsdadminscripts
port installed so you can run the included "pkg_libchk" script which
achieves nearly the same result. I always used to use it after a
postmaster/portupgrade run to ensure nothing was left in a broken state.



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