From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 19 07:28:55 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 812CF16A4CE for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 07:28:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from qescan1.qgraph.com (QESCAN2.qgraph.com [206.158.124.8]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D47F243D1D for ; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 07:28:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from James.Ziller@qg.com) Received: by sxsmtp1.qgraph.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) id ; Mon, 19 Apr 2004 09:28:47 -0500 Message-ID: <025596A38A894B45AFE62346A6BF474609CBACCE@waexch1.qgraph.com> From: "Ziller, James" To: 'Lowell Gilbert' Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 09:28:59 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2657.72) Content-Type: text/plain cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Dependency hell X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 14:28:55 -0000 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" 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".