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Date:      Thu, 6 Jan 2005 12:53:52 -0800
From:      "Michael C. Shultz" <reso3w83@verizon.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mpeg4ip requires IPv6?
Message-ID:  <200501061253.52931.reso3w83@verizon.net>
In-Reply-To: <20050106204827.GA28897@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
References:  <20050106183900.1966.qmail@web53607.mail.yahoo.com> <200501061239.17851.ringworm@inbox.lv> <20050106204827.GA28897@odin.ac.hmc.edu>

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On Thursday 06 January 2005 12:48 pm, you wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:39:16PM -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote:
> > On Thursday 06 January 2005 11:48 am, you wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:38:59AM -0800, Scott I. Remick wrote:
> > > > Ah, the useful information starts pouring in!
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 08:51:49 -0800, Michael C. Shultz wrote:
> > > > > Just a suggestion here, two ways you can go about this
> > > > > so here is the hard way first:
> > > > >
> > > > > Rename /usr/src/lib/compat to /usr/src/lib/compat-HOLD or
> > > > > something like that, then what ever programs are linked
> > > > > against them will fail and these need to be rebuilt.
> > > >
> > > > I'd be willing to do this... but... is it possible to cheat a
> > > > little and determine proactively what ports are linked against
> > > > them? See the output in the other post I made earlier today
> > > > (the huge one).
> > >
> > > ldd will tell you what libraries a program or dynamic library is
> > > linked against.  It's a fairly simple matter to write a script
> > > that runs it on all programs and dynamic libraries and looks for
> > > one or more libraries. pkg_which can then be used to generate a
> > > list of ports.  I write a one-off a while back, but I can't see
> > > to find it. A general tool would be quite handly if someone
> > > wanted to hack it together.
> >
> > does pkg_which get its information from pkgdb.db? If so I would be
> > hesitant to trust which port version actually installed each
> > library because I think pkgdb -F modifies pkgdb.db to say they were
> > installed by currently installed ports and looses the information
> > about which version really installed them.
>
> pkg_which does us pkgdb.db which is exactly what you want since you
> want to know which package needs to be removed and reinstalled in
> order to remove dependencies on the particular library you are
> worrying about.
>
> -- Brooks

Ok, I get it finally.  If I were to remove the port that installed the 
library that I am certain is too old then  portmanager -u
would handle the rest from there. Thanks.

-Mike

 



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