Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 09:28:59 -0500 From: "Ziller, James" <James.Ziller@qg.com> To: 'Lowell Gilbert' <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Dependency hell Message-ID: <025596A38A894B45AFE62346A6BF474609CBACCE@waexch1.qgraph.com>
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So in other words I do have to recompile everything that depends on a given library just because that library is updated to a slightly newer version?:( jz -----Original Message----- From: lowell@be-well.ilk.org [mailto:lowell@be-well.ilk.org] Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 9:20 AM To: Ziller, James Cc: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: Dependency hell "Ziller, James" <James.Ziller@qg.com> writes: > Making a simple symlink from libexpat.so.4 to libexpat.so.5 will allow > xterm to run again - but of course that's a dirty disgusting way to do > things. From what I understood, pkgdb is the tool to fix this, but > running pkgdb -F will not prompt me to change xterm dependencies from > libexpat.so.4 to libexpat.so.5. No, that's not the tool to fix it. As /usr/ports/UPDATING would tell you, do a "portupgrade -fr textproc/expat2".
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