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Date:      Sun, 9 Feb 2014 07:43:32 -0600
From:      Bryan Drewery <bryan@shatow.net>
To:        Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it>
Cc:        Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>, "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ICU sweeping upgrade: bug or feature?
Message-ID:  <8223EC8F-1EE9-4AFE-AF76-EFA7196E5BAB@shatow.net>
In-Reply-To: <52F78316.2010502@netfence.it>
References:  <52F6132C.3070406@netfence.it> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1402081001470.35659@wonkity.com> <52F78316.2010502@netfence.it>

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> On Feb 9, 2014, at 7:31, Andrea Venturoli <ml@netfence.it> wrote:
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>> On 02/08/14 18:08, Warren Block wrote:
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>> This may very well come back to bite you in the future,
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> Well, as I said, this is just a temporary fix for something that, IMVHO, s=
houldn't have broken in the first place.
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>> causing
>> mysterious failures long after you've forgotten you did it.
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> I periodically clean /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg, so it shouldn't be long be=
fore the links and the libraries they are aliasing are both gone.
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> However, what is different here from what portupgrade usually does (i.e. l=
eaving old libraries in that compat dir)?
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That is a portupgrade feature. Which tool did you use?


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>> Running pkg_libchk [-q] after port upgrades has worked well for me.  It
>> is from sysutils/bsdadminscripts by Dominic Fandrey, and easily detects
>> applications that are using old libraries and should be rebuilt.  It
>> worked this time also.
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> I normally use sysutils/libchk. I never tried pkg_libchk, but I'm curious.=
 What is the advantage of one over the other?
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> bye & Thanks
>    av.
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