Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 11:24:27 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Specs for saving old shared libs Message-ID: <17997.50475.233127.735076@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20070518154727.019d3c31@gumby.homeunix.com.> References: <20070507184231.GA50639@xor.obsecurity.org> <1179437517.8912.5.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> <20070518075058.GB1164@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <200705181409.15561.mail@maxlor.com> <17997.40528.630013.491475@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <20070518154727.019d3c31@gumby.homeunix.com.>
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RW writes: > > > The last part seems to be the catch here. How about providing a > > > tool that scans all binaries in the standard locations for what > > > libs they depend on, and also allows the user/admin to specify > > > the paths to binaries that he installed on his own, then outputs > > > a list of unused libraries? > > > > Are you aware of "libchk" and "portsclean"? > > I have dozens of these libraries in my compat/pkg directory and I doubt > that any should be needed, since I'm fully up-to-date, and mostly use > portmanager. <do not try this at home> When in need of emergency disk space, my first trick is to flush /usr/ports/distfiles and /usr/obj. If that's not enough, I empty /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg. About one time in twenty I discover something important was depending on a deleted lib. _So far_ , every time I have been able to fix this by sym-linking lib<foo>,N to lib<foo>.N+1. </do not try this at home> Robert Huff
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