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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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