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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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