Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:09:34 +0100 From: "Alex Burke" <alexjeffburke@gmail.com> To: "FreeBSD CURRENT" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Removing ports based on library dependency Message-ID: <a8b8bb510609111209n5333a497ie5ca675d408139a9@mail.gmail.com>
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Hi, Apologies if this would seem to be the wrong list for this post. I want to upgrade one of my FreeBSD boxes running 6.0 to CURRENT. I know that this involves rebuilding ports so they link against libc.so.7 and all associated libraries. I guess the small problem is that I really only want to upgrade certain ports, since the machine has a ton of stuff I really would like to get rid of. I can set those individual port upgrades off myself with portmaster. However, I would then want to delete all the ports that I didn't upgrade...and presumably that would mean checking what was still compiled against libc.so.6 The problem is, I have NO idea what the incantation would be to get a list of each installed port's dependencies...but once i have that, I can probably do a pkg_delete on it...and with CURRENT I could probably clean up with delete-old-libs target? I would greatly appreciate if somebody could advise me how to go about this....and although I know it would probably be more efficient to reinstall the machine from scratch, I'm trying to avoid the data shifting and inability to use the system that alternative causes. One extra little point, is symbol versioning reobust enough to be enabled for the entire system? Are there any bebefits/drawbacks to that approach? Thanks in advance, Alex J Burke.
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