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From: "Scot Hetzel" <swhetzel@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Specs for saving old shared libs
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On 5/18/07, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote:
>        <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>
>
You don't need to use the sym-link hack, instead create an
/etc/libmap.conf file that contains:

lib<foo>.N lib<foo>.N+1

For the applications that are missing lib<foo>.N.

Scot
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