Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2011 01:53:32 -0500 From: "Conrad J. Sabatier" <conrads@cox.net> To: James Colannino <james@colannino.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Checking for broken packages (as in linking) Message-ID: <20111105015332.298b4346@cox.net> In-Reply-To: <4EB4D76A.2050009@colannino.org> References: <4EB4D76A.2050009@colannino.org>
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On Fri, 04 Nov 2011 23:27:54 -0700 James Colannino <james@colannino.org> wrote: > > What I want to know is, are there tools that will check the ports > I've installed and tell me if any of my packages are linked against > libraries that are no longer there? I'm paranoid that at some point, > while I'm building and installing updates, I'm going to break > something. The port sysutils/bsdadminscripts includes a tool called pkg_libchk, which does exactly what you're looking for. > I've been using FreeBSD for a little while now, but I'm still > learning... :) Thanks in advance! Hey, we're all (even us so-called "old-timers") "still learning". :-) -- Conrad J. Sabatier conrads@cox.net
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